Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Mantola

PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge:

On February 19, 1917, in the midst of World War I, a British ship, the SS Mantola, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic. The ship and its cargo-including what is believed to be 536 bars of silver, each weighing 1,000 ounces and together worth several million dollars today-sat at the bottom of the ocean for a century. In 2011, Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. ("Odyssey"), an underwater exploration company, located the *297Mantola. It has since endeavored to bring the ship's cargo to the surface.

In April 2017, Odyssey brought this action…