The wreck now lies on the floor of a small harbor on the island of Nosy Boraha off the northeast coast of Madagascar, which ...

Key Background. The Atocha was constructed in Cuba in the 17th century, when powerhouse Spain controlled much of the New World. The ship was commissioned by a Spanish government agency tasked with ...

A ring set with an emerald that was rediscovered on a Spanish shipwreck nearly 400 years after being lost sold for $1.2 million at auction, ... The Atocha, built in Cuba in the 1600s, ...

Shimmering gold lies in wait… ” promises the website of treasure hunter Martin Bayerle. It is now 44 years since he ...

The Nuestra Señora de Atocha set sail from Havana for Spain on Sept. 4, 1622, with a payload that included 180,000 coins, 24 tons of ingots struck from Bolivian silver, 125 gold bullion bars and ...

It’s part of a fleet of salvage ships that have come to these waters for half a century searching for lost riches from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon loaded with gold, silver ...

Treasures from the world's most valuable shipwreck worth $1.1billion which sat on ocean's floor for 400 years on rare display in New York. The Nuestra Señora de Atocha sunk near the Florida Keys ...

A Rare Emerald Salvaged From a 400-Year-Old Shipwreck Could Reach $70,000 at Auction All proceeds will go toward supporting the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. Published on November 2, 2022 ...

When the Atocha sank in 1622, it had 70 pounds of emeralds on board. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Menu. Search site.

In 1985, one of the most incredible treasures discovered in America emerged from the Florida Keys when Mel Fisher's team located the mother lode of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha.

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 ...