In addition to judo, shirtless fishing, race-car driving, and chasing
whales with a crossbow (that actually happened), Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin now dives for sunken treasure. While
visiting the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea, site of several ancient
Greek trading posts, Putin—accompanied by a media retinue—
visited archaeological sites and took in a little scuba diving. Just
moments after descending, he "discovered" two broken sixth-century
Greek amphorae lightly buried in the silt. "Treasure!" he proclaimed
upon surfacing with the finds, after which he treated reporters to an
impromptu history lesson about how pots that were broken during
transport were tossed overboard.
