Looks like, in my opinion, the Nope List has just been put through the "spin" factory. This post is not intended for purpose of countering your comments for intent to influence you for a change of mind, but only that others concerned with the facts may read and know what they are. For that reason I will address your numbers 6, 7, 12 and 18.
( #6 & #7) The divers law suit has not failed "once already" and the "old lawyer" was not abandoned. You can be forgiven for not reading Spanish but its rather easy to recognize the spelling of a name. The re-file of the law suit against the boat, as you well know, was posted here. The lawyers name Fernan Ramos is clearly there, so what you have written is not factual. Same old lawyer. The only reason it was re-filed was because there was a release done so as the RV Hispaniola could go up for auction. As the highest bid was apparently only $125,000.00 it was withdrawn and thus the formality of refiling the case. So, no its no where near a "cold case", intact its going to become a rather "hot" case very soon as the marine is coming into the legal picture now being owed around $100,000.00 U.S. for dockage bill.
(#12) "Boat has sailed before and their is only one boat". Amusing comment. All boats have sailed before at one time or the other. Actually there are three "boats". The RV Hispaniola" (the big boat) and two 17 foot inflatable boats (on deck), so you see the plural "boats" can be accurately stated. We worked out of these inflatables just as much as off the RV Hispaniola. The fact is the RV Hispaniola didn't "sail" enough which brings me to #18.
(#18) Burt Webber a Partner. Nope. and you say (Because he couldn't find treasure like he was suppose to!) No, as was put in evidence, that was not the reason. I recently posted Webber's Letter of Default to MEI which was based upon MEI's failure - inability to meet their obligations to fund the project and meet the other terms of the JVA they had with Webber. We had some good things going for us, particularly with the initiated salvage of the "Solo Dio Gloria" which was dropped because of lack of funding. As stated before, we were left unpaid and abandoned in Puerta Plata without even air fare back to the states.
In finishing, I again point out that the RV Hispaniola, now tied to the dock in Pueta Plata for over two years, has never had any below waterline hull maintenance done, and as an American flag vessel is in major violation of U.S. Coast Guard - American Bureau of Ships mandatory requirements. It can't even leave port legally. In the world of boating and ships the word gets out and thats undoubtedly the reason why the ship went back into litigation because of being basically "no bid" just like the MEI stock. You can change a company name, put some fresh make-up on it but if the names stay the same in management, then nothings changed.
