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Facts show research hardly helped Odyssey
By SCOTT BARANCIK
Published July 10, 2006
Marine researchers who spent part of the 1990s trying to pinpoint the wreckage of the S.S. Republic sued Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. two years ago, accusing the Tampa company of illegally using their data to find the ship and then failing to share the booty. Balderdash, a South Carolina judge said last month. In a 19-page decision, Charleston Judge J.C. Nicholson Jr. said the researchers' lawsuit not only belonged in a Tampa court but was fundamentally weak. If the plaintiffs' research was so helpful, he said, why did it take Odyssey two years to find the ship, and in waters far from where the researchers had predicted? Case closed? Not yet. On June 29, the plaintiffs asked Nicholson to rehear the arguments.
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