Posted on 05/23/2018 9:53:09 AM PDT by Simon Green
A more than 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck carrying treasure that might be worth up to $17 billion was discovered with the help of an underwater robot. It's called the Remus 6000 and it can dive nearly four miles and is loaded with sensors and cameras.
Bronze cannons confirmed "the holy grail of shipwrecks" had been found at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. They are engraved with dolphins — a telltale sign they belong to the Spanish galleon San Jose, lost more than 300 years ago.
"I just sat there for about 10 minutes and smiled," said Jeff Kaeli, a research engineer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Kaeli was alone in his bunk on the search vessel when he spotted the cannons.
"I'm not a marine archaeologist, but ... I know what a cannon looks like. So in that moment, I guess I was the only person in the world who knew we'd found the shipwreck," he said.
The exact location of the wreckage is still a secret, but it was discovered in November 2015 off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. Its cargo of gold, silver, and emeralds could be worth as much as $17 billion.
The Remus 6000, operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, found the ship almost 2,000 feet below the surface. The underwater robot scanned the sea floor using long-range sonar then went back and took pictures of any objects that seemed out of the ordinary.
"You can take bigger risks with your technology and go to places where it wouldn't be safe or feasible to put a human being," Kaeli said.
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“So, that’s where I misplaced my ship. It’s mine. All mine!”
Not so fast. That’s right where I had an unfortunate boating accident and one of my cannon’s fell overboard.
2000 feet, kinda deep.............................
Spain: Hmmm, $17 billion?
That ship belongs to us.
That ship is Spainish soveriegn territory. That stuff belongs to us. All that money you spent finding it is immaterial.
Thanks and so long.
Thanks for the refresher. My highschool history (which wasn’t very good by the way, social studies ruined real history) from the late 70’s is pretty rusty today. And European history back then wasn’t high on my interest list.
I later learned from the national war college, that most if not all of the turning points in history were the result of conflict and war (winners and losers). Suddenly, history was not just some sequence of events to memorize, and the history of Europe and all its ridiculous wars became of interest.
Still, most of those studies are becoming distant memories now. As I get older and less active, I hope I find an interest to get back into book reading, which for the last 3 decades has been limited to mathematics and engineering topics mostly. Admittedly, I have become lazy enough that I prefer a good historical movie to a book, and I know that leaves a lot out.
Doing what politicians do.............
70% of Earth's recoverable gold is waiting to be discovered, and it will be done with robots. And then robots will burrow down into Earth's molten core and bring back much more than that.
No weather satellites or NOAA back then. But, the Spanish Crown was so desperate for the money they kept tempting the fates.
Spain was basically at war with England for control of Europe and launched the Spanish Armada against England.
That was a very long and very expensive war.
10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Spanish Armada:
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 – a fleet of Spanish ships led by Medina Sidonia with the purpose of overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I – is considered one of England’s greatest military achievements, and one that served to boost the monarch’s popularity. But how much do you know about the campaign?
Easy pickings for the Glomar Explorer.
Too bad they scrapped it.
The CIA ship..................................
The amount of gold ever mined in history could form a cube that would just about cover a tennis court. About half of that has been mined since about 1960. The Spanish still managed to pull gold out of the ground at a greater rate than any entity in history up to their time, and during their peak centuries of production, probably doubled the total world supply of mined gold, not even including the relatively small amounts they lost to shipwreck. It's staggering to contemplate.
Keep your voices down, else Mel Fisher might hear you. And he's liable to come back from the dead just so he can beat everybody to the treasure!
A 68 foot cube
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.
Will get those loaded into the Kindle. As long as they fit beside their 680 brothers and sisters in there. 8<)
Yea, or forced slave mining.
That is the spot I lost my guns in a boating accident. I am staking my claim.
The finders may be lucky to mek3e expenses after various governments expropriate the treasure.
Thanks mowowie.
Thanks, looks interesting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493:_Uncovering_the_New_World_Columbus_Created
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus
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