Zach Moore, a diver and engineer for Mel Fisher’s Treasures in Key West, holds the rare gold coin he found July 16, 2021, while searching the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1622. Amy Tripp ...

A ring made with an emerald that was lost on a Spanish shipwreck for four centuries before being rediscovered in one of the most successful treasure hunts of all time will come to auction for the ...

KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - Divers in the Florida Keys have recovered a large emerald ring and two silver spoons believed to come from Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a shipwrecked Spanish galleon that ...

The emerald was on the Atocha, a Spanish vessel that sunk in 1622. Sotheby's In 1622, a ship called the Nuestra Señora de Atocha sank in a hurricane—with a 6.25-carat emerald, among many other ...

For the unversed, the Atocha was part of a fleet commissioned by the Spanish government in the 17th century to further the country’s exploration and colonization efforts. The galleon left Spain for ...