May
24
/ 2018
310 years ago, a 62-gun Spanish galleon, the San Jos é , was sunk by the British Navy in the Caribbean Sea during the War of Spanish Succession. With a heavy cargo of gold, silver and emeralds historians have estimated her treasure to be worth 17 billion dollars. Now, claimants to the treasure are getting really angry with each other. Like, military angry! The San Jos é ’s whereabouts became an obsession of marine historians, sub-sea archaeologists, governmental cultural departments and treasure hunters, until November 2015 when an international team of scientists and engineers aboard a Colombian Navy research ship discovered the long-lost wreck off the coast of Cartagena, on Colombia’s Barú Peninsula. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"48949","attributes":{"alt":"A newly released gridded mosaic of images
