Discover the world’s most valuable shipwrecks! From treasure-laden galleons to pirate ships, explore the incredible stories of sunken riches and the fortunes still lying beneath the ocean’s depths.
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Did these ships not have the weather channel???
"San Jose was lost at sea,
Part of a Spanish Company,
Her powder caught under fierce attack,
The king never got his emeralds back,
Their downed, downed and drowned, downed and drowned and never found."
– The Longest Johns
i did a few wreck dives years back.. was amazing
Untouchable because government will cease the gold while not sharing in the retrieval
I need to learn how to dive. Not greedy just needy
Of course the Spanish government wants to steal the gold of the Sussex at Gibraltar, and the Mercedes ship in international waters.
They have hundreds of years of experience of stealing what does not belong to them, and if the owners object, the Spanish destroy their civilization.
Its all they know, their economy today is only what it is, because of the atrocities of the past that they will not apologize for,
or accept any responsibility for whatsoever. All they understand is plunder and run back to Spain squealing about their riches.
… no respect.
So the whole Europe was theif 😂😂
National Geographic's 2021 film, 'Battle for the Black Swan', written and directed by Christopher Riley, tells the story of the discovery of the wreck, the salvage, and subsequent dispute. It won a gold medal for History and Society at the 2022 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards.
the moral of these stories never make an announcement just sell it off quietly!!!
0:55 – Chapter 1 – HMS Sussex
3:15 – Chapter 2 – Black swan project
5:50 – Chapter 3 – Whydah gally
8:35 – Chapter 4 – San Jose
10:40 – Chapter 5 – Nuestra senora de atocha
14:00 – Chapter 6 – SS central america
1/137
Rich people destroying history as normal
So, what have all these stories taught us, class?
That's right! If you find sunken treasure, some nation will claim it as theirs (regardless of the circumstances), and snake it out from under you. And you will be stuck with the costs of salvaging the wreck.
you missed ''la licorne"
Spain: We want the gold and treasure we stole back you can’t find something we weren’t looking for in international waters and expect to keep it.
USA: we would be happy to make them give it back but my friend wants his art collection back and we want it in writing if we accidentally drop another nuclear weapon that has the firing mechanisms removed so it wont explode in a nuclear explosion but that will still have conventional explosives on it but still makes an extremely big hole in the ground on you that you don’t give us too much trouble in the news and international courts.
We learned one big lesson from this video. These nations who think they can make some money off a wreak they had no clue of where was nor had any interest in looking for it will take you to court for it pretty much immediately after you tell anyone you have it.
I don't know why Spain gets so shitty ,there the ones that stole everything they could from the originals people of the America.
How about the Russian cruiser damaged by the Japanese navy in the Battle of Tsushima and sunk by her own crew in 1905 to prevent capture. This ship is rumored to carry billions worth of treasure. But others say its just a rumor spread by a (now bankrupt?) company involved in the salvage operations to increase it stock value.
I remember watching the show with the Odyssey in the early 2000s.
Bottom line, if you find a Spanish or any other country's ship that claims 100% ownership… Tell them about it's general location and then tell them to piss off about salvaging it.
Wait wait so they can't find the stern section of ship witch would have been huge. But then they find a single emerald ring far away from the sites of sinking I call bs hahaha 😆
Odessy are grave robbers
I’m fine with the government wanting to claim these salvages but they should pay them a fair price for it or go get it themselves
It’s funny how when someone takes the risk and spends the money to get yo the wreck,.. All of a sudden the vultures who did nothing swoop in to claim it??!
Legalized theft by Spanish and American governments, lame
Spain is just a bunch of buzz kill pricks. I think after 200 years you should lose all claims of possession. You obviously were going to find it. You shouldn’t be able to let someone else do all the work and just claim “Mine” when someone finds something.
Guy finds buried treasure like a pirate and then proceeds to become a pirate
Can you imagine you spend months loading a ship, you wave them good bye and before youve gone 3 feet from the dock " eh hi again, we're back,so em yeah, it sank" 😑🤦😅
I wonder how many 'treasures' have been recovered without the public knowing because the finders wanted to actually make a profit for once.
Greed got the last guy, but he still made out
FYI watchers, i offer great rates for "scrap" gold found
Thank you !! I love this. The thought of all that just sitting there, tons of it. btw, the "ch" in Atocha is pronounced as the "ch" in Chevrolet.
11:34 I find it curious, to say the least, that you manage to avoid all the english-speaking traps in the name "Nuestra Señora de Atocha", yet fail espectacularly the moment you reach the "ch", which should be pronounced as in "reach" or "church".
12:24 a slave? The technology used for Nuestra Señora de Atocha, with which part of the treasure could be salvaged, was invented by one Pedro de Ledesma, who left constance of that system (and several others) in a manuscript from 1623, and that consisted on a labourer (not a slave) wearing a diving suit with a brass helmet connected to the surface through a tube (I believe leather), who put whatever he found in baskets that were lifted by people in boats (they could spend 3 to 4 hours straight under the sea at a time). They even had ways to bring the shipwreck back up (at least three), but those were indeed unsuitable for the depth of that particular one (in fact, the Atocha wrecked alongside another one called La Margarita, which was lifted using one of those methods).
Diving bells were indeed an existing technology, but not what was used in this shipwreck, and definitely not manned by "disposable slaves", not to mention that slaves were regarded as valuable at the time, to the point that galleons were manned by both slaves (muslims caught during battles or bought after being caught during battles, the exact same way muslims caught christians as slaves during battles at the time) and penal labourers, but only the second group could be sentenced to death for breaking the rules (the slaves only got lashes); after all, besides their monetary value, they could be used as exchange for captive christians. Black African slaves were not used for that purpose (and they were still valuable) and there were no native slaves at the time (technically, there never were, even if they were treated de facto like that for a couple decades, but only in the "work for free for me and I treat you like I want" sense, as they couldn't be bought or sold and, once that couple of decades after 1492 passed, they received rights and citizenship, although not the same, because it was an aristocratic society centuries before the Enlightment and the concept of universal rights).
The moral of the story. If you find something valuable, keep your mouth shut and pawn off small portions throughout your travels around the world.
Looters despise it if you appear to be looting them. 😉
I dont understand how countries that stole riches centuries ago can now claim the ownership. How does this work legaly? How can an American state claim ownership over a sunken treasure from spain?
Oh yeah Ocean Odyssey. Claiming to be interested in "marine archaeology" but in reality just raping shipwrecks for profit.
Let's not forget the Titanic. A hallowed grave site yet constantly dug over in the name of…"Learning more about her story and bringing the past to life".
Utter bollocks! Bits ripped up from the sea floor and then hawked around the world in a tawdry carnival in the pursuit of profit.
why the f…. do you speak like you are in a hurry to finish. Is that somebody said dicks?
The governments are the worst pirates in the world.
They will do nothing to recover these treasures. Yet as soon as some intrepid individuals risk life and there own money on recovery efforts they will step in and steal it.
Yes Spain is a thief. They had no plans for the recovery of that wreck. The Obama administration is complicit in that theft.
Just a hypothetical piece of advice. If you go after treasure, keep on it on the downlow. Don’t trust anyone. And sell it.
What just kills me about the claims to ownership of these treasure ships, is if it does not belong to the finders, it should belong to the native population from which it was stolen, not to the Hispanic descendants of the people who stole it in the first place.
11:30 Why is the ship sail doing that?
The Whydah Gally wreck was plundered and looted quite a bit right after the sinking, and like you said, refound and looted again.
I visited the Wydah Pirate Museum last year and it was extremely interesting. If the reader is ever on Cape Cod, I highly recommend dropping by: 674 MA-28, West Yarmouth, MA 02673
I would think that the dive ships will add a smelter at their next refit.
Melt the gold down to ingots and its yours!