‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ to be exhumed off Colombia with $20B sunken treasure

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A Crew Is Extracting the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks, Loaded With Billions in Lost Treasure

The Colombia government announced a plan to start recapturing some of the sunken treasure from the San José galleon, sunk near Cartagena in…

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