A fisherman's amazing catch

The BBC has an article by Shahdi Alkashif about a very lucky fisherman:

A statue thought to be an ancient bronze of Apollo, the Greek god of poetry and love, has dropped off the radar after being found in the sea off Gaza last summer and surfacing briefly on eBay; it is 2,500 years old and priceless.
Jawdat Abu Ghurab (photo, top) used to be a builder but, in 2007, Israel restricted the delivery of building materials to the Gaza strip, so he became a fisherman like his father. He only has a small boat, so he never goes out far, thus catches only small fish. One day in August of 2013, however, the 29-year-old from Deir al-Balah ended up with a very different haul.
His uncle was also fishing that day, but gave up early. Ghurab kept going. "I stayed alone in the sea with a small boat and paddle, I waited for hours and did not imagine what fate had in store for me in the depths of the sea," he says. "Sometimes waves move the bottom of the sea, small fish go to that spot in search of food, I saw the fish congregate in an area not far from the coast, only a hundred meters out, so I rowed out there and, immersed in the sea, I saw the body of a person, half-buried under the sand."
At first Ghurab was scared. He stared into the water but did not recognise the man's face. When he dived in and touched the body it felt like stone. "I tried to move it, to make sure that it was a statue, but it was too heavy," he says. "The colour was golden, so it was easy to think it was gold."
Ghurab marked the spot and went back to the beach to fetch his relatives. They returned and dove down together, at a depth of about four meters, Ghurab estimates. "We were able to slide it under the water for a metre or two metres and then go up again to take a breath and try again," he says. After four hours they succeeded in getting the object out of the water. It was the statue of a naked man. They loaded it on to a cart and took it to Ghurab's house. "My wife covered her face when she saw him lying naked in the house. She begged me to cover it," he says, laughing.
Ghurab's uncle, Atef, proposed cutting the statue into small pieces and selling it.
"After I saw the yellow colour at the head of the statue I thought it was made of gold, but one of my sons suggested cutting off the finger and taking it to the market to check. We remembered that one of our relatives worked in the neighbourhood selling gold. We called him and he examined the statue and told us that it was made of bronze." But he also said the bronze statue could be even more precious than if it had been made of gold.
Ghurab considered trying to smuggle the statue into Egypt to sell it, but the smugglers' tunnels, dug to circumvent restrictions put in place by Israel and Egypt after the Islamist movement Hamas came to power in Gaza, have been out of action since they were closed by the Egyptian army last summer.
Neighbours started asking questions, so Ghurab asked a relative, a commander in Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, to help him hide it. "The people who took the statue said they would send me a handsome reward after they sell it, but we have not got anything yet," he says.
For a while it was for sale on eBay, with an asking price of $500,000. Then the listing disappeared. Ahmed Elburch, an official at the Hamas-run Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Gaza, says he last saw the statue in October. He was concerned about its condition, he says, as the color appeared to be changing, and one of the eyes had been cut out. He says a request from the Louvre in Paris, France to borrow the statue is currently being studied.
People living in the north of the Gaza Strip say the statue is still being held by militants, who have refused to hand it over to the Hamas government. But no one can be sure.

Rico says a classic 'oops'; this guy's never gonna see a shekel out of this...