Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. Announces Resignation of Melinda J. Macconnel as Executive Vice President and the Secretary and General Counsel

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. discovers, validates, and develops seafloor mineral resources. The Company has a diversified mineral portfolio, which includes projects controlled by the Company and other projects in which it has a minority owner and service provider. The Company’s projects include the Exploraciones Oceanicas Phosphate Project, CIC Project, South American Phosphate Project and LIHIR Gold Project. The Exploraciones Oceanicas Phosphate Project is a rich deposit of phosphate sands located 70-90 meters deep within Mexico’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The project is located approximately 25-40 kilometers from the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Lihir Gold Project covers a subsea area, which contains at least five prospective gold exploration targets in two different mineralization types: seamount-related epithermal and modern placer gold. The resource lies approximately 500-2,000 meters deep in the Papua New Guinea Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ).