Gaza (CNN) -- When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. "I was afraid," he told CNN. "I put on my goggles, dove underneath and still couldn't tell what it was. I resurfaced and got some help from other people and family members and came back, and after full four hours of trying we managed to get it out of the water and I was shocked by what I found." It was a life-size bronze statue, believed to be a 2,500-year-old depiction of the ancient Greek god Apollo.
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NEW: "Treasure pulled out of the sea"
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Fisherman Jwdat Abu Ghrb says he discovered the statue off Gaza
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The statue appeared on eBay with a starting price of $500,000, authorities say
But in a @placeholder gold store, a man who displayed video of the statue told CNN that he has custody of it and that it is in safe hands, but -- if someone wants to buy it -- that would be possible.