[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Say what you want about those English Privateers and freelance pirates from everywhere, momma nature kept more gold out of Spanish hands than did the Jolly Roger. When I was in junior high (middle school, for those of a younger demographic) one of my classmates brought an interesting thing to social studies (the leftist perversion of history, when history was eliminated from curricula) -- some relative of hers was trying to raise money to recover sunken treasure, and we passed around the sample, a Spanish Real from 300-350 years before. Wonder what happened with that?

[Red Badger]

2000 feet, kinda deep.............................

[colorado tanker]

momma nature kept more gold out of Spanish hands than did the Jolly Roger

No weather satellites or NOAA back then. But, the Spanish Crown was so desperate for the money they kept tempting the fates.

[ckilmer]

btw. I just finished a book by Charles Mann called 1493. The book just does a fabulous job of explaining the silver trade. There’s stuff in there that I never knew before. Like that silver mountain in bolivia not only supplied the currency for europe for 200 years but also for china.
the book details what Mann calls the columbian exchange which is about the exchange of everything from diseases to silver to silk to potatoes and people and more between the old world and the new world. Great bed time reading. I’m currently working on his other book 1491.

[SunkenCiv]