article_snippet.sent: In 1988 the 62-year-old led an excursion to the vessel, known as the Ship of Gold, which sank  off the Carolina coast in 1857 laden with 21 tons of gold.
article_snippet.sent: Gold bars taken from the SS Central America which sank during a hurricane in 1857 .
article_snippet.sent: Around 400 people drowned in a shipwreck.
article_snippet.sent: An artists impression of the SS Central America sinking off the Carolina coast in 1857 .
highlights_snippet.sent: Ship sank off the Carolina coast in 1857 laden with 21 tons of gold .
  