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Credit: REMUS image, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Posted on 07/24/2017 9:49:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Colombia on Friday opens bidding for investors willing to retrieve billions of dollars in gold and silver from an 18th century ship wreck off the country's Caribbean coast.
The Spanish galleon "San Jose" was the main ship in a fleet carrying gold and silver -- likely extracted from Spanish colonial mines in Peru and Bolivia -- and other valuables back to King Philip V.
It sank in June 1708 during combat with British warships attempting to take its cargo, as part of the War of Spanish Succession. Only a handful of the ship's crew of 600 survived.
President Juan Manuel Santos wants to form a public-private partnership to retrieve the shipwreck items, and build a museum for the recovered pieces and a laboratory to study and conserve the material.
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Crew of 600????
How big was that ship?
Bigly Yuge...
The Spaniards loved big ships. That’s why the Brits kicked their butts.
Getting into the treasure business with a Central American country? No thanks.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks nickcarraway.
Credit: REMUS image, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Central American?
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