From the December 6, 2015, Chicago Tribune nu Pedro Mendoza AP.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos hailed the ship,found off Colombia's coast more than 300 years ago as the world's largest sunken treasure.
The Spanish galleon San Jose was discovered with the help of an international team of experts and the president says he will personally see to it that its location is safeguarded. It sank somewhere i the wide area off Baru Peninsula and the port of Cartagena.
On June 8, 1708, the San Jose sank, along with 600 people as it was trying to outrun a British fleet. It is believed to have been carrying 11 million gold coins and jewels from the Spanish colonies of the New World. This could be worth billions if recovered.
The ship is considered by maritime experts to be the holy grail of Spanish colonial shipwrecks and has been the subject of abn extended legal battle between Colombia, Spain and the United States pver who owns the rights to it.
--CooterTreasure
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