High Tech Galleon Plunderers!

The husband of my DAFt chum reports:

Spanish police have broken up a ring of undersea looters who have spent the last two years allegedly plundering the archaeological treasures of Spanish galleons and other historic ships that sank off the coast of southern Spain.

At the weekend, the local civil guard in Cádiz announced the arrest of two Hungarian men and an American woman believed to have set up an on-deck laboratory on their ship, the Louisa, where they used hi-tech equipment - including an undersea robot worth €600,000 (£410,000) - to illegally identify, salvage and treat artifacts from the wrecks. More arrests are expected.

Good Lord! They are treasure-salvors without portfolio. Adventurers after our own hearts! I wonder if that rascal Nelson knows them?

Supply Problem Solved!

Dear Gus! has been kind enough to gift me with a gigantic beer in thanks for my support of his upcoming, or perhaps it is his outcoming book:

If you click on the book, it will benefit Gus Openshaw very much, and also a personal charity of mine a scosh.




And look at the size of this beer! No more problems of supply for me... er. I believe underbeneath the "Burps Ahoy" banner, it very possibly says "12 fl. oz." which I'm reasonably sure is Merrikish for "Not very much beer, really" or possibly "12 foolish old sotz."
Ah.

Apparently I was wearing "beer goggles" when I received this gift. Never mind.