{"id":1510561,"date":"2022-06-10T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510561"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:50:07","slug":"two-sunken-ships-found-near-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-artifacts-from-estimated-17-billion-treasure-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-sunken-ships-found-near-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-artifacts-from-estimated-17-billion-treasure-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Sunken Ships Found Near \u2018Holy Grail\u2019 Of Shipwrecks, Artifacts From Estimated $17 Billion Treasure Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-sunken-ships-found-near-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-artifacts-from-estimated-17-billion-treasure-revealed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two Spanish shipwrecks were found off the coast of Colombia near the remains of the \u201choly grail\u201d of sunken ships, according to government officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two ships, believed to be hundreds of years old, were discovered by Colombian authorities during an underwater project documenting the wreck of the San Jose galleon (sometimes called the \u201choly grail of shipwrecks\u201d) which reportedly had about $17 billion of gold onboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already found two additional vessels: one vessel that is from the colonial period and another that, from the point of view of preliminary analysis, corresponds to the Republican period of our history,\u201d Colombian President Ivan Duque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/two-ships-found-near-spanish-galleon-full-gold-worth-17-billion-1714432\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ships were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/06\/08\/colombia-shipwreck-san-jose\/\">found<\/a> about 3,000 feet under the water off the coast of Cartagena during observation missions by the Colombian navy. Both vessels apparently went down near the 300-year-old wreck of the Spanish ship the San Jose, which was sunk by the British in 1708.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Duque unveiled new photos and footage of the two now discovered wrecks as well as the San Jose\u2019s treasure. The footage was taken by a remotely operated vehicle.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In addition to taking footage of the newly discovered schooner and colonial boat, the operation also procured photos of some of the San Jose\u2019s treasure, believed to be one of the largest ever for a shipwreck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe equipment that our army has acquired and the level of precision have kept this treasure intact, but at the same time, we will be able to protect it for later extraction,\u201d the president stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian Navy also announced that they do not believe that the wreck of the San Jose, first discovered in 2015, had been disturbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the guidelines of the Presidency of the Republic during the last two years, the Colombian Navy and the General Maritime Directorate, in a non-intrusive observation work carried out at the site where the Galleon San Jos\u00e9 rests, has verified that it has not suffered intervention or alterations by human action,\u201d the Navy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who gets the treasure of San Jose is still a question up for debate with Spain, Colombia, and others all claiming the rights to the valuable discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swords, hand minted coins, crockery, and 17th century cannons were among the items viewed by Colombian authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are talking about is an important wealth that has a lot to tell us about our past,\u201d Colombian Maritime director Jose Joaquin Amezquita said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Spanish shipwrecks were found off the coast of Colombia near the remains of the \u201choly grail\u201d of sunken ships, according to government officials.\u00a0 The two ships, believed to be hundreds of years old, were discovered by Colombian authorities during an underwater project documenting the wreck of the San Jose galleon (sometimes called the \u201choly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1510634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}