Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. v. McManus [1]

Odyssey Marine Exploration, a company involved in shipwreck salvaging, sued Jim McManus, a diver and a director of a UK-based historical website, for defamation in Florida state court.  Odyssey contends that McManus defamed it in postings to its Yahoo! Finance message board under the pseudonym  "nauticalresearch" and also on an unidentified website.  The allegedly defamatory statements related to Odyssey's announcement in May 2007 that it had recovered  500,000 coins from a shipwreck at an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal [2]. McManus is representing himself, and the case appears to be in the discovery phase.