Spanish police intercepted a ship belonging to US deep-sea explorer firm Odyssey on Thursday, officials said, in a row over a 370 mln eur treasure haul recovered from a sunken wreck in the Atlantic.
The Ocean Alert, which had been docked in Gibraltar until recently, was picked up in Spanish waters at about 6 am, on the orders of Spanish authorities.
The ship is to be searched, and may have committed an offence against Spanish heritage laws, the civil guard said in a statement.
An Odyssey official on board the ship was quoted on the net by the Gibraltar Chronicle as calling the boarding 'illegal' and said the ship had been in international waters.
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