Something about the 1715 dosent jive with me. I have learned everything I know through this forum, I am no expert. . Where is the “rest” of it? “Supposedly” there’s a lot left. There are big missing links to this puzzle that shouldn’t be missing. What we have here is a heavily laden fleet that exploded in shallow water very very close to land. This might sound naive or rude, but why hasant the rest been found? You will never find all of it, and I understand the ocean is a very big place. I naturally compare this fleet to other high profile wrecks. In my personal opinion it seems that it would be much much harder to find say the Atocha or even more so the 1641 Concepcion. That wreck was found so far out in the middle of nowhere buried in miles of reef that all look the same. That’s the definition of finding a needle in a haystack. Yet the 1715 that busted up practically on the beach is so elusive. I just don’t get it. My theory is that the 1715 was salvaged much much more extensively than we realize, or more than people want to admit. Is there any salvage record of say late 1800s turn of the century? Has poaching this last century been way more rampant than publicized? Did the Indians get more than we ever imagined? Too much just dosent add up. The search area is drastically smaller than the previous wrecks I mentioned not to mention the water column is much shallower. Did the reef system grow at a rapid rate covering a lot up? How have more locations not been positively identified. There are “theories” but little concrete evidence. Not one single bell has been recovered on a site to positively identify it? I understand the scatters run together. Or is there a lot of hush hush to keep the investors there to keep the wheel always turning. Sorry for the long rant.
? Yeah,pounds of it !
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