{"id":362839,"date":"2018-05-26T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-galleon-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-found\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T00:33:20","slug":"spanish-galleon-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-galleon-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Galleon &#8216;Holy Grail of Shipwrecks&#8217; Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Some details have finally been revealed around the discovery, in 2015, of the 62-gun, treasure-loaded Spanish galleon long known as the \u201choly grail of shipwrecks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>San Jos\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>went down with hundreds of sailors and chests of gold, silver and emeralds mined in Peru and worth up to $17 billion in today\u2019s dollars during a 1708 battle with British ships in the Caribbean Sea off the South American coast.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary wreck was discovered off Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 27, 2015, launching questions about a potentially testy private-public resolution of who would collect on the glory, and, possibly, the bounty. As such, secrecy has shrouded the project for years before a few new details of that discovery were released this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/18\/05\/Galleon3.jpg\" width=\"934\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To hunt for the San Jos\u00e9, researchers used an unmanned underwater vehicle called REMUS 6000, owned by the Dalio Foundation, created by the head of the world\u2019s largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio, and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). It\u2019s the same vessel that helped find the wreckage of Air France 447 in 2011 and helped map and photograph the Titanic wreck site in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>To confirm the identity of the San Jos\u00e9, REMUS, celebrated for its ability to conduct long-duration missions over wide areas, descended near the suspected wreck, found about 2,000 feet underwater, capturing photos of a key distinguishing feature of the San Jos\u00e9: bronze cannons engraved with dolphins, the WHOI said in its release. WHOI said it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/spanish-galleon-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-found-with-17-billion-booty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some details have finally been revealed around the discovery, in 2015, of the 62-gun, treasure-loaded Spanish galleon long known as the \u201choly grail of shipwrecks.\u201d The\u00a0San Jos\u00e9\u00a0went down with hundreds of sailors and chests of gold, silver and emeralds mined in Peru and worth up to $17 billion in today\u2019s dollars during a 1708 battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}