Goldfinder

Goldfinder

Keith Jessop

This is the story of Keith Jessop, the most successful underwater treasure hunter in history. It describes how Jessop went from being a penniless Yorkshire boy to salvaging 5 tons of Russian gold worth over $100 million from the HMS Edinburgh, which lay 1000 feet at the bottom of the ocean.

Goldfinder is a 2001 autobiography of British diver and treasure hunter Keith Jessop. It tells the story of Jessop’s life and salvaging such underwater treasures as HMS Edinburgh, one of the greatest deep sea salvage operations and most financially rewarding in history.

One day in April 1981 Jessop’s survey ship called Damtor began searching for the wreck of HMS Edinburgh in the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean of the coast of Russia. The ship had been sunk in battle in 1942 during WW2 while carrying payment for military equipment from Murmansk in Russia to Scotland. His company, called Jessop Marine, won the contract for the salvage rights to the wreck of Edinburgh because his methods, involving complex cutting machinery and divers, were deemed more appropriate for a war grave, compared to the explosives-oriented methods of other companies.

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