Spanish Galleon Sank With $17-Billion Worth of Treasure In Today’s Money. Now Confirmed As the World’s Richest Shipwreck

Painting: Wager’s Action off Cartagena, May 28, 1708. Painting depicts the battle in which the ‘San José’ was sunk. Artist: Samuel Scott (1703–1772) via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Tibi Puiu. ZME Science – June 11, 2025. Research article: Antiquity.
 

These gold coins haven’t glittered in more than 300 years. At 600 meters down, sunlight never reaches the seabed. Here, in the cold black stillness off Colombia’s coast, history lingers in silence. But a robotic vehicle, guided by human eyes from the surface, drifts over the wreckage. After so much time away from humans’ greedy sight, this forgotten gold glittered under the light of the remotely operated submersible — this time shining as clues. Clues that have now confirmed a story that sounds like something out of an adventure novel — of a Spanish galleon, a violent explosion, and a treasure swallowed by the sea. This is the San José. […]

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