However, the Republic’s fate was sealed by another ship ... a Spanish galleon sunken off the coast of Colombia has a cargo that reputedly contains about 17 billion in treasure.

[In Photos: San Jose Treasure Ship Found] Treasure trove and graveyard ... of the San José wreck shouldn't be lost amid visions of silver and gold, Leidwanger and Hanselmann said.

The government plans to use submerged robotic technology to extract some of the treasure from the surface of the sunken ship between April and May. This could help determine what condition ...

The team identified different parts of the ship ... was fished for treasure on at least 21 occasions between 1656 and 1683, in which time around 5 million pesos' worth of silver bars, coins ...

The San Jose galleon could possibly have the world's largest sunken treasure ... ship sank as it was returning to England from Mexico and held hundreds of thousands of pounds of gold and silver.

Sunken ships ... a portion of the ship. Still, it wasn't until 1980 when Mel Fisher's Treasures and Blue Water Ventures found ...

Called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José was carrying a treasure of silver, gold ... sunk after a battle with British ships off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia ...

There’s something so fascinating about a sunken ship ... The 1715 Treasure Fleet (also known as the 1715 Plate Fleet, because “plata” is the Spanish word for silver), wrecked off the ...

A mission to recover a three-century-old sunken ship believed to be holding $20 billion worth of treasure has been launched ... of the massive trove of gold, silver and emeralds estimated to ...

For nearly two decades, the Maritime Archaeology Society has struggled to solve the mystery of the Beeswax Wreck, the elusive vessel that inspired One-Eyed Willy’s treasure ship in The Goonies.

A Spanish ship that sank in the Caribbean in 1708 could hold sunken treasure including gold, silver, and emeralds worth up to $20bn, the Colombian government said, unveiling plans to explore the ...