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Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.”
The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago.
At the time of its sinking, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the San José had been carrying large amounts of gold, silver and emeralds from Spanish colonies in Latin American back to the Spanish king.
Collectively, those treasures are believed to be worth billions of dollars in today’s money and they are at the center of a heated legal dispute between the Colombian government and a US-based marine salvaging company named Sea Search-Armada (SSA).
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Colombia recovers first treasures from 300-year-old ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
There are a lot of stories about this shipwreck in the media - always using the "Holy Grail of Shipwrecks" line..
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VENICE, Fla. —
Dr. Harry Maisch, a paleontologist at Florida Gulf Coast University, has made a groundbreaking discovery: several shark and ray species in fossil form —never before recorded in Florida.
Just off Venice’s coast, beneath the Gulf waters, fossils of ancient creatures lie buried in the sand. These aren’t just the big, famous ones, like megalodon teeth, but tiny microfossils, too...
The new finds help scientists reconstruct ancient sea levels, water temperatures, and ecosystems from millions of years ago.
Some of the species he identified are globally extinct, and the discovery marks the most diverse fossil shark-and-ray community ever documented in Florida...
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Paleontologist uncovers a lost world beneath Florida's Gulf Coast
Venice is known as the "shark tooth capital of the world."
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I'll be getting back to my series on how coins move, but here is just a short and amazing example for now.
This is from a book entitled Wave Action in Relation to Engineering Structures.
I'll have more of it for you in the future.
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The surf remains small.
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