High-Tech Looters Pillage Mediterranean Shipwrecks

Ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean are being looted of their treasures. “Traffickers have caught on to the fact that there are more than 12,000 shipwrecks in Greek waters. Many of the submerged gems date back to the Golden Age of the fifth century BC. Armed with archeological service maps acquired on the black market, burgeoning numbers of international smugglers have made it their mission to locate the wrecks, authorities say.”