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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 1708.Dubbed the “holy grail” of shipwrecked treasures, even conservative estimates place the worth of the ship’s bounty at billions of dollars. Underwater remotely operated vehicles will do the initial heavy lifting of scouring the ship and bringing items to the surface. In the world of treasure-filled shipwrecks, nothing in history has quite matched the San...

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