Posted on 06/08/2022 10:14:08 PM PDT by algore
The Colombian army has released a video showing gold coins and other valuable items around the shipwreck of the San Jose galleon, believed to be the resting place of billions of dollars in treasure.
Royal Navy vessels sank the Spanish flagship in 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession, but its resting place - near the port of Cartagena on Colombia's coast with the Caribbean - had been a mystery for more than three centuries before the Colombian navy formally announced its discovery in 2015.
Experts speculate that the ship was loaded with at least 200 tons of treasure, including millions of high-purity gold doubloon coins, as well as many silver coins and emeralds that the Spanish empire had plundered from South America, worth up to $17bn (£13.5bn) today.
The video reveals an enormous bounty aboard the vessel even beyond the gold coins and ingots, including ancient cannons as well as intact Chinese porcelain, pottery and cannons.
Colombian government and military archaeologists are studying the inscriptions on this material to determine where it originated from.
President Ivan Duque praised his country's navy for capturing "images with a level of precision that's never been seen before" and has asserted that the wreck and its contents would remain in Colombia rather than be sold as part of the salvage operation.
The salvage rights have been subject to decades of litigation and are contested by a professional salvage company that claims to have first uncovered the wreck in 1981, as well as Colombia, Spain and the Qhara Qhara nation of indigenous Bolivians who claim the Spanish extracted the wealth from its people.
The images shared by the Colombian army were captured with a remotely operated submersible vehicle that dived to a depth of almost a kilometre.
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The loot should be divided equally between the Inca and Aztec empires.
I’m sure she would donate all the money to a worthy charity.
The Colombian army was looking for old shipwrecks? Sure, sure.
I was just wondering what the Amy was doing, since I would suspect this is something the Navy should be doing? 😀🤭🤔
I read that the army is needed for security and to keep unauthorized people away.
$17 billion in gold and not sold when recovered?
HA!
When you find something like that you salvage, sell and shut up! Somebody leaked.
Well, how far out to sea were they, and how deep was the water? Maybe other warships were there too. Who knows?
300 years after a wooden ship sinks, gold coins are still visibly scattered on the sea floor?
Maybe a pile of gold coins from a rotten chest is visible.
Individual coins? Very skeptical.
A company found it in 1981, then the columbian army found it from them.
One kilometer deep, didn’t any of you read the article?
The wreck is very deep.
Not impressed by the photos, don’t waste a click on the site.
Government thieves doing what thieves do, steal
She’ll pledge it, that’s the same thing isn’t it?
Bob, you beat me by 2 minutes.
One of our long haired Chihuahuas pooped on the bed last week.
We have been calling him Amber Turd because of his blond colored fur.
Who knows. Probably protecting the treasure so the Elites could divvy it up.
Oh, good. They found my missing property. I’ve been looking for that.
Yeah, that’s how I make my mortgage payments.
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