Ship confirmed as one used by Christopher Columbus

Ananova ^ | 5/02/02 | staff

[LarryLied]

Experts are confident a ship found off the Panama coast did belong to Christopher Columbus.

After six months of research, scientists and archaeologists are sure the ship was used on his last trip to America.

It was found 155 miles east of Panama City.

Director of the National Culture Institute of Panama, Rafael Ruiloba, told the Clarin newspaper: "There is now sufficient evidence that this is La Vizcaina."

Researchers have learned the ship was made with the same material and using the same process used at the end of the 15th century.

It also coincides with the historic description of La Vizcaina.

[Falcon4.0]

EXCELLENT!

And if we're lucky there will be DNA from Columbus and we can clone him and try him for civil rights crimes!

[Tancred]

We have to be sure to turn the ship over to the Native Americans as reparations.

[aomagrat]

This ship is offensive to everyone except white males and must be destroyed.

[Sangamon Kid]

It was found 155 miles east of Panama City.

Sorry, this ship, the Golden Hiney, was the 2nd place finisher in the race to discover the New World. The ship had been stolen from Ferdinand and Isabella by Islamic explorer Vasco bin Laden, but failed to make it to the finish line. It is thought that Vasco forced the Spanish crew to walk the plank, allowing his own men to commandeer the boat. After seeing Columbus cross the finish line ahead of him, Vasco turned the ship into a floating weapon, eventually ramming into the mud and straw huts surrounding the harbor.

[afraidfortherepublic]

An article for blam!

[Doctor Stochastic]

They might try looking off the edge of the earth. That's where the missing ships fell. (Those not eaten by dragons.)

[steve in DC]

Does that mean if we dissect dragon fuments, we can find the bones of all those lost ships?

My kids do similar stuff with owl pellets.

[MAWG]

Excuse me? Surely you're not serious?

[blam]

Good find, thanks.

Beans A La Vizcaina

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