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500-year-old mystery: Wreck off Haiti may be Columbus' flagship Santa Maria

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(CNN) -- Is a sunken shipwreck off Haiti the long-lost remains of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas?
The underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who led a team that found and investigated the wreck, says he's confident it is.
"This is the ship that changed the course of human history," he told CNN.
If the claim is confirmed, it would go down as one of the most significant underwater archaeological discoveries ever.
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Wreck off Haiti may be Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria - CNN.com

We should send this guy out to find flight 370.
 
If it is, and if there are valuables found intact, where will they end up?
 
Top Cat said:
Dude will make some serious jing I would think.
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Prolly. Running expensive equipment and crew, I don't even want to guess how much that costs either.
 
I love stuff like this.
 
Saw this earlier.. Very cool!

Tim-
 
If this does turn out to be the Santa Maria, how awesome would that be??
 
AJiveMan said:
If it is, and if there are valuables found intact, where will they end up?
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It would most likely end up in a laboratory for a few years with hundreds of studies being carried out by everyone from historians to engineers. The Smithsonian would probably be one of the organizations most likely to help in that matter.
 
AJiveMan said:
If it is, and if there are valuables found intact, where will they end up?
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If the Santa Maria was a ship owned by the Queen of Spain, it belongs to Spain. If the Santa Maria was just a merchant ship, then who ever does the salvaging owns what he salvages. Unless the Santa Maria is in the territorial waters of a sovereign nation, it's usually a 50/50 split.

Don't take my word for it but I think it's how it works.
 
APACHERAT said:
If the Santa Maria was a ship owned by the Queen of Spain, it belongs to Spain. If the Santa Maria was just a merchant ship, then who ever does the salvaging owns what he salvages. Unless the Santa Maria is in the territorial waters of a sovereign nation, it's usually a 50/50 split.

Don't take my word for it but I think it's how it works.
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It was owned by a business man who accompanied Columbus on several trips. Initially it was financed by several spanish bankers, and after is was lost (and some of its hull used to build a fort, where all that remained were killed by natives, as Columbus discovered when returning) the Queen apparently partially covered some of the loss. Its 4.7ish miles off of haiti, meaning Haitian territorial waters, right?

Another question would be if its not the Santa Maria, what other ship of that era would it actually be? It would have looked something like this...
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BTW-the guy who found this previously found a gold-laden pirate ship. :cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whydah_Gally
 
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