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Talk of the bay: Treasure hunter says Spain flap has cost it $5M

By Times Staff
Published November 20, 2007

How much has Odyssey Marine Exploration's flap with Spain over the Black Swan shipwreck cost it? A cool $5-million, the Tampa treasure hunter said in a recent court filing. Odyssey claims that Spain's seizure of two key ships, its binding of the company's remote-operated vehicle with tape - and a threat to arrest anyone who removes the tape - and its "bogus" criminal investigation have prevented the company from harvesting Black Swan artifacts and to search for other sunken treasure.

Clearwater firm names interim CEO

P. Mark Perkins has been named interim president and chief executive of Clearwater's Aerosonic Corp. He fills posts vacated by David Baldini, who had announced his resignation in June. Perkins has been with Aerosonic, which makes aircraft instrumentation, since 1998, initially in sales and marketing positions.

Publix introduces 'all natural' feast

Chalk this one up to the industry race to offer more "all natural" and "organic" food. For the first time, bakeries in 11 select Publix Super Markets in the Tampa Bay area this week will offer to cook up "all natural" Thanksgiving dinners for re-heating at home. The $99.99 deal includes a never-frozen, 10-12 pound, antibiotic-free turkey that was reared on vegetable grain; 4 pounds of dressing and gravy; preservative-free orange/cranberry relish made with whole berries; squash; a dozen dinner rolls made from wheat and barley flour and a gourmet sweet potato pie.

Firm lands $125M deal for what?

Sypris Electronics LLC, a Tampa subsidiary of Sypris Solutions Inc., received a four-year deal worth up to $125-million from the Pentagon for the production of cryptocards. And what exactly is a cryptocard? Known as the KOV-21, it is a "personal computer memory card information security card." As best we can tell, it's a card or device that allows military personnel to plug into high-security networks and computer systems using encrypted passwords. Sypris, part of Sypris Solutions in Louisville, Ky., recently saw its president, Robert Sanders, resign. His place has been filled temporarily by Sypris parent executive Scott Hatton. The company plans to name a new president following a search.

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