High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. is engaged in the salvage of deep-water shipwrecks. Odyssey salvaged the US Civil War era shipwreck of the SS Republic in 2003 and recovered over 50,000 coins and 14,000 artifacts from the site nearly 1,700 feet deep. Odyssey has several shipwreck projects in various stages of development around the world, including the codenamed Black Swan Project. Odyssey is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol 'OMEX'.