Whats the one New World shipwreck........

[Salvor6]

Pat, a sow is what they called a large ingot. It could be iron or lead, not in the shape of a pig! Platinum was a by-product of the smelting process. The Spaniards had no use for it and called it "ba$tard silver."

 

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[pat-tekker-cat]

Pat, a sow is what they called a large ingot. It could be iron or lead, not in the shape of a pig! Platinum was a by-product of the smelting process. The Spaniards had no use for it and called it "ba$tard silver."

OK, sssuuueeeyyyyyy Sal! I'm with ya now. I figured if it was platinum pigs, we'd be there asap.
See what happens to the brain when you jump from forum to forum. Thanks for suffering my ignorance, I'ma little new here, and good luck with your quests.

 

[Bum Luck]

I would like to find shipwreck of "Santa Maria de la Antigua", renamed in 1962 by treasure hunter Harry rieseberg for "Golden Hinde", and again renamed by Potter in 1975 for "El Dorado", the flagship of the 1502 lost fleet. Of course, I would like to find it together with giant gold nugget that was on board....

Regards,
Lobo

Is that the ship that went down in Mona Passage?

 

[Bulgarian]

"New World" as in "The Age of Discovery" or as in the geographic term "North and South America" ? If the latter, then I want to re-discover the ancient Roman wreck off the coast of Brazil, that Robert Marx was working on...Marx says in one of his books, that Spain and Portugal, fearing they will lose their status of "discoverers of the New World" pressured Brazil to shut down the site....

By the way, does anybody know of any work/search for this wreck since Marx ?

 

[stevemc]

Brazil covered it with dredge spoils. They did not want it excavated. I am sure it is still there. Most likely no treasure, but all kinds of neat historic stuff.

 

[Bulgarian]

Brazil covered it with dredge spoils. They did not want it excavated. I am sure it is still there. Most likely no treasure, but all kinds of neat historic stuff.

Talk about burying their head in the sand, to avoid facing the historical facts... Oh and while we're at it - the world is flat, right ?

 

[Oceanscience]

Brazil covered it with dredge spoils. They did not want it excavated. I am sure it is still there. Most likely no treasure, but all kinds of neat historic stuff.

It is still there, untouched, it was not buried and is open for anybody to dive on.
I know the diver that showed it to Marx and the diver that told Marx where he could find the diver that knew the site.
And the whole story, from the first pictures of the amphorae that were published in the Brazilian magazine 10 years before Marx was in Brazil, to the story of the original finder in the Italian diver magazine.

And all the little secrets about that long story.

 

[FISHEYE]

The Brazilians want to remain being of spanish descent.They dont want the rest of the world to think they are part roman.And of course the spanish being the discoverers of the New World.But little do they know that the romans and chinese and vikings beat them to it.

 

[LM]

Brazil covered it with dredge spoils. They did not want it excavated. I am sure it is still there. Most likely no treasure, but all kinds of neat historic stuff.

It is still there, untouched, it was not buried and is open for anybody to dive on.
I know the diver that showed it to Marx and the diver that told Marx where he could find the diver that knew the site.
And the whole story, from the first pictures of the amphorae that were published in the Brazilian magazine 10 years before Marx was in Brazil, to the story of the original finder in the Italian diver magazine.

And all the little secrets about that long story.

Wait... Are we talking about a Roman ship that dates to Pre Colombian times wrecked in New-World waters?
Is just sitting there, known to people? Wow.

 

[Smithbrown]

Brazil was colonized by Portugal, not Spain. They still speak Portuguese and have no particular regard for Spain or Spanish America.

Smithbrown