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Last year maritime archaeologists in Mexico dived into the wreck of a 200-years-old British ship after it was neglected for almost two decades. But as soon as the current Covid-19 restrictions ease the ship will be explored once more, in an effort to finally identify it. The wreck was originally reported in the late 1990s by a local fisherman named Manuel Polanco, who gave it the name “ El Ingl és” (The English). Polanco discovered the ship on the Banco Chinchorro reef, a treacherous sea monster located about 35 km (22 miles) from the eastern coast of Quintana Roo state in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, near Belize. The wreck was explored by divers from Mexico's National Archaeological Institute (INAH) for the