Gonzalo Dominguez. EFE
“Without any doubt, we found 307 years after its sinking, the galleon San Jose,” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in a ceremony in which he presented some of the photos taken by the scientific teams .
Visual documents leave no doubt: they wear bronze cannons cover the moldy San Jose show that the offshore field corresponds to that ship sunk by English pirates in 1708
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To achieve such identification, a team including the Ministry of Culture, the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History and the direct collaboration of the Navy, explained Santos coordinated.
Team Titanic
In addition, they turned to the latest technology and experts from around the world, including a member of the team that discovered the wreck of “Titanic”.
The San Jose, equipped with 60 cannons forged bronze especially for his defense, loaded with gold Viceroyalty of New Granada, silver Peru and gems and whose final destination was Spain, was attacked by pirates near Cartagena de Indias. Shortly after leaving the port was sunk by the British ship “Expedition”, which was reached in a brief battle against the Spanish fleet was the “Race of galleons.”
“It is an event that reminds us that science Colombian history consists of events of very different eras, featuring thousands of people who are part of our national memory. Today we pay tribute to the 600 sailors who died when the collapse of the galleon San Jose, “concluded Santos.
To protect the secret that still keeps the San Jose, details of its location and carrying treasure, valued at 5,000 million dollars, will be kept secret.
Key
The Spanish galleon departed from Peru and was sunk by an English attack in 1708 when he arrived in Panama with 11 million gold coins and 600 people on board.
Since 1980, several companies tried to recover the treasure hunters treasure of San Jose, but in 2011 a court in Washington said the galleon property of the Colombian government after a request from the company Sea Search Armada.
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