Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estimated $17 billion shipwreck is set to be recovered as soon as ...

History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...

With a slight breeze riffling the water, twelve ships set sail from Havana. Eleven were bound for Spain, loaded with gold and silver. Among them were the flagship Capitana and Urca de Lima. The ...

A spectacular find off the coast of Colombia has provided a rare glimpse into the riches of one of the most valuable shipwrecks in history. The San José, a Spanish galleon that sank more than 300 ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Coins worth nearly half a billion dollars finally arrived in Spain on Saturday after lying in a sunken warship for more than 200 years and following a five-year legal battle between ...

Stolen 18th-century gold coins worth over $1 million have been recovered in Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) states that the 37 gold coins were stolen from the 1715 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – A ship belonging to Florida deep-sea explorers has left Spanish waters, ending the latest round in an increasingly nasty dispute with that nation’s government over the rights to a ...

The 37 stolen coins are valued at more than $1 million, FWC officials said in a Nov. 26 news release. FWC photo Three dozen stolen gold coins linked to a fleet of 18th century treasure ships have been ...

Onion glass bottles over 300 years old were retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean off Indian River County in 2021 and 2022. While the exact ship carrying the onion glasses remains unknown, the vessel was ...