Colombia continues salvage efforts on San Jos shipwreck

Work to recover what experts call potentially the most valuable shipwreck ever continues in Colombia.
Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos Caldern, announced July 5 that the national government has been in cooperation with salvage specialists to recover the San Jos, which sank June 8, 1708, in 800 feet of water off the island of Baru near Cartagena, the nation’s capital.
Current recovery efforts require a public-private partnership, in a mission that is scientifically minded, the president said.
The San Jos was part of the fleet of King Philip V, who fought the English during the War of Spanish Succession. A reported 600 people died in the shipwreck, which happened when British ships under the command of Adm. Charles Wager attacked the three warships leading the 17-ship fleet. The San Jos sinking was the only success attributed to the British in the event, historically named Wager’s Action.
The Colombian Navy and others located the wreck on Nov. 27, 2015, a find that the nation’s president disclosed on Dec. 5, 2015.

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