Honestly arguments like they did not care about it for years are worthless, so what its theirs. The right thing to do would have been to contact the Spanish government and obtain a contract that would compensate them for the retrieval as was mentioned several times. I do not see how Spanish government is under any moral obligation to compensate them the costs now after having had to fight a legal battle to reclaim what turned out to be theirs by law.
Wanting it to be at the bottom of the ocean and being content to leave it their are different things. They were content to leave it at the bottom of the ocean perhaps eventually paying a Spanish company to bring it up. But once someone took the initiative to bring it up the were also content to keep it, although they probably were not too happy at having to fight a court battle to recover the treasure.Which was my point. They clearly didn't want it left where it was. This has no bearing on the case itself, I just wanted to put to rest the idea that they wanted it where it was
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