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The ship sank along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20billion in today’s money (Colombian Armada) ... claiming it independently found the galleon with a team of divers ...
A Spanish galleon described as “the Holy Grail of shipwrecks” is set to be raised from the ocean floor - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money ...
After eight years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Treasure Salvors on 1 July 1992, and it was awarded rights to all found treasure from the vessel. [7] [8] Fisher died on 19 December 1998. In June 2011, divers from Mel Fisher's Treasure Salvors found an antique emerald ring believed to be from the wreck.
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax , lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
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New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.. Dubbed ...