Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargo

Tom's Hardware
Jul 30, 2026, 6:00 am168 pts
A firm that is using AI to locate ancient shipwrecks is sending out a call to seafarers to salvage sunken treasure. The general impression of the state of the tech job world might be that people are being fired left and right, and the only open jobs are AI-related. But what if you could use your sailing and…

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