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 ...

Colombia’s government has announced it will attempt to raise objects from the San Jose galleon, a Spanish warship that sank ...

The San José is a Spanish Galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena in 1708, while trying to outrun the cannons of pursuing British warships. It was the flagship of a royal armada returning to King ...

Despite being buried in the dark depths of the Caribbean Sea for the past 300 years, the San José galleon has still managed to bring international tensions to the surface. First found in 2015 by the ...

The world’s most coveted shipwreck is finally giving up its secrets. After centuries on the Caribbean seabed, the Spanish galleon San José has yielded its first cache of coins, cannon and artifacts, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government announced plans Friday for a deep-water expedition to explore the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern Caribbean and ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood reinforced with... The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure The San ...

Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago and is believed to contain billions of dollars worth ...

In 1708, the British sank a Spanish galleon—a large war and/or merchant ship used from the 15th through the 17th centuries—off the coast of Colombia. Over three centuries later, its cargo of gold ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San ...

Over 10 years after its initial discovery, “the greatest sunken treasure in the history of humanity” sits untouched at the bottom of the Caribbean Ocean. The San José shipwreck, valued over $5 billion ...