The confirmation that a legendary Spanish galleon holds an estimated 17 billion dollars in treasure has turned a long‑whispered maritime myth into a measurable economic and political reality. The San ...

Mel Fisher spent 17 years searching for the wreck of the 1622 Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha. In 1985, he found it.

More than three centuries after a hurricane smashed a fleet of Spanish galleons into the reefs off Florida’s east coast, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ship filled with billions of dollars worth of treasure sank off the coast of Colombia over 300 years ago, now the Colombian ...

The Nuestra Senora de las Maravillas wrecked in the Bahamas in 1656 carrying a double load of treasure. Plundered for centuries, a new scientific approach yielded a distinct view of the eight-mile ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government announced plans Friday for a deep-water expedition to explore the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern Caribbean and ...

The San José is a Spanish Galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena in 1708, while trying to outrun the cannons of pursuing British warships. It was the flagship of a royal armada returning to King ...

A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 ...

A 300-year-old shipwreck in the Caribbean is believed to hold gold and silver coins, emeralds, and other sunken treasures that could be worth $20 billion. On Friday, Colombia's government unveiled ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San ...