Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ to be exhumed off Colombia with $20B sunken treasure
A mission to recover a three-century-old sunken ship believed to be holding $20 billion worth of treasure has been launched by the Colombian government.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his administration to exhume the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” — the Spanish galleon San José — from the floor of the Caribbean Sea as soon as possible, the country’s minister of culture told.