The crew who managed to locate a Gold Rush-era steam boat nearly 150 years after it sank are gearing up for court battles with the surviving families of those on board.Jeff Hummel and Matt McCauley, proprietors of Rockfish, Inc, were the remnants of the SS Pacific up to 2,000ft below sea level after searching for the doomed ship for nearly 30 years.The two were fascinated by the story of the ship, which was carrying around $180,000 worth of gold — equal to about $4.8million in today's money — when it collided with the sailing ship Orpheus south of Cape Flattery in Washington in 1875.
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