Florida Couple Faces Charges Over Sunken Treasure Sales

A diver explores the mysterious remains of a centuries-old shipwreck resting on the ocean floor. Nejat Semerci/stock.adobe.com

Gold, shipwrecks, and an international legal storm. A maritime mystery decades in the making may soon play out in a French courtroom, as an American cruising couple stands accused of selling gold allegedly looted from an 18th-century shipwreck.

The case centers on Le Prince de Conty, a French East Indiaman that sank in 1746 off the coast of Brittany...