Treasure hunter claims to have found Osama Bin Laden’s dead body

Treasure hunter Bill Warren claims he has located Osama bin Laden's dead body: 200 miles west of the Indian city of Surat, to be exact, Gizmodo reported. 

"I've located where they threw him away," Warren told Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information." 

Warren believes the late Al Qaeda leader's body has stayed put since the Navy disposed of it at sea last year, since they weighted down the bag containing bin Laden's remains, the International Business Times reported.

After studying satellite photos released by the Pentagon of the 'burial at sea,' Warren has said he and his team could find the body in a week or less. All he needs is $200,000 to finance the operation, the Business Times reported. 

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"We do this because we are patriotic Americans and feel that President Obama failed to provide the proof," the treasure hunter  told TMZ.

Warren hopes to start his search on June 1, and doesn't expect it to last more than three months, Global Grind reported — unless, of course, the US Government sinks his boat or assassinates him. 

Warren, who boasts that he has discovered 200 shipwrecks over the course of his career, is currently living in Azerbaijan, where he is apparently working for the local government to locate old ships, according to Gizmodo.

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Warren also has a history of chasing grandiose sunken treasures: he has repeatedly tried to find the Trinidad, a Spanish ship filled with Aztec gold that sunk off the coast of California in 1540. He has made several failed attempts at a Trinidad discovery — in 1976 and again in 1987 — and at the time he claimed he had located the Trinidad, according to Gizmodo. 

Bill plans to take a film crew along to document his hunt for bin Laden, TMZ reported. We're looking forward to the reality TV series, if nothing else.