Gold bars and coins are pictured on the bottom of the seabed off the coast of North Carolina, USA. In 1989, maverick scientist Tommy Thompson stuns the world by recovering three tons of gold from a shipwreck deep in the Atlantic Ocean. What follows is a 30-year story of adventure, deception, and personal turmoil, taking him from venerated celebrity to infamous fugitive, and finally a defiant prisoner who refuses to give up his gold. This is from Cursed Gold: A Shipwreck Scandal.