Life Deep-sea secrets and the ‘Ship of Gold’: Why a treasure hunter sits behind bars as bounty gets auctioned May 8, 2022December 2, 2022Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAYComments Off on Deep-sea secrets and the ‘Ship of Gold’: Why a treasure hunter sits behind bars as bounty gets auctioned Tommy Thompson and a team of scientists found the so-called Ship of Gold in 1988. Since then, Thompson has been drowning in legal troubles.