Colombian naval officers accomplishing underwater tracking of the long-sunken San Jose galleon have found different historic shipwrecks close by, President Ivan Duque stated on Monday.
The San Jose galleon, concept through historians to be wearing treasure that could be really well worth billions of dollars, sank in 1708 close to Colombia’s Caribbean port of Cartagena.
Its capability recuperation has been the issue of a long time of litigation.
A remotely operated automobile reached 900 meters depth, Duque and naval officers stated in a video statement, permitting new films of the wreckage.
The automobile additionally found different close by wrecks – a colonial boat and a schooner concept to be from across the equal duration as Colombia’s battle for independence from Spain, a few two hundred years ago.
“We now have different discoveries withinside the equal area, that display different alternatives for archaeological exploration,” military commander Admiral Gabriel Perez stated. “So the paintings is simply beginning.
The photos provide the best-but view of the treasure that became aboard the San Jose – which includes gold ingots and coins, cannons made in Seville in 1655 and an intact Chinese dinner service.
Archaeologists from the military and authorities are running to decide the beginning of the plates primarily based totally on inscriptions, the officers stated.
“The concept is to get better it and to have sustainable financing mechanisms for destiny extractions,” President Ivan Duque stated. “In this manner we guard the treasure, the patrimony of the San Jose galleon.”
