Inside the race to recover a sunken ship and up to $20B in treasure
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- There is a race to the bottom of the sea off the coast of Colombia to recover a sunken Spanish war ship - and up to $20 billion in treasure on the ocean floor. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.
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#shipwreck #treasure #colombia
There’s a Spanish galleon off the coast of Venezuela that has the same issue. A nation wanting private companies to recover billions in treasure but don’t want to even share enough with the company to pay for the recovery.
Trust issues (I don't blame them...ex colony)
chances are many pieces are already "missing"
I'm excited about Port Royal Jamaica s ocean floor
@@livingstonprince Don't make your plans public, last thing King Charles needs is more money.
Imagine how much more historical artifacts are at the ocean floor
When you find them YOU TELL NO ONE! Look show selfish and greedy this government just became. They literally just claimed it all for themselves.
A lot considering how much of the ocean’s floor is not explored
There are 2,500 year old ships found at the bottom of the black sea. If you google it you can see videos and images. All preserved due to no light and little oxygen.
As a spaniard it belongs to spain they stole it fair and scare from the incas.
The atocha was the mother load. Any way that treasures belongs to spain its in a spanish galleon and they stole it from the incas fair and square
That museum housing this treasure will need to be the most secure building in that country, if not the entire continent.
Yep. I'll just let them do all the work bringing it up.
Then I'll make my move.
😅😊....yeah...is it more worth than all the gold bars inside Fort Knox?
You think these crooked politicians aren’t goin to take a cut?
@@seeharvester need a driver?
it's Colombia, corrupt politicians and drug cartels will take most of the 'loot' before it finally ends up in the museum.
In other economic news, a family sized box of Cheez-its is now up to $8.82.
You should not be eating cheeze-its
@@eliocheeyea he should be eating Cheese Nips
@@eliocheewould you rather he eat clover valley cheese squares?
who ever found this they sure told the wrong person
Britain should get half for sinking the ship & stopping Spain from having it.
Tons of lost treasure out there lots of historical value..😊
Ambition is a virtue but greed is unbearable.
That’s my one big dream to find a whole lot of buried treasure and tell nobody about it you ,know finders keepers
1:02 " and then ran into a british warship" of course it did haha
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 COLOMBIA. Its all yours fellas.
Colombia's crook president wants everything for himself. 🤑💰💸
Not for long! I already know how this is going to play out.
¡ESE TESORO ES DE PERÚ Y BOLIVIA!
@@gustavodiniz6156 En Colombia también hay oro y plata. Aunque reconozco que sería legítimo dar una parte a Perú y a Bolivia. Y que España se quede con el barco 🤣
OceanGate should've been focused on this instead of the Titanic
Give Spain the ship and keep the treasure
yeah, because Spain has the the nerve to ask about the gold
great idea
Lol, yeah
Spain always be asking for any treasure found at sea
The ship was made in Colombia, it might be Spanish in it's flag but it still is a national treasure
If any coins were ever actually cursed, these are. Let them rest in peace.
This is an awesome find and the world deserves to see it. Wish I could metal detect aline the coast because they probably won't get 100% and I'm assuming some will wash up on beaches over time. Very cool!
You don't bring up the ship, just the goods! Can't wait!
The imagination is worth more than the gold…stuff like this is so cool
That fish was like what you looking at
It should be distributed among the miners families tirelessly dig up those gold and minerals
But how would you even attempt to do that? That’s near even more of a impossible task.
So weird to think the ship that sank it probably knew what treasure was on it but had no way to recover it.
Inside the race to recover a sunken ship and up to $20B in treasure 1704pm 7.11.23 probably pirate booty Spanish and English fighting over it, no doubt, all those years ago... p,.s the guys tasked with salvaging this they have already begun legal proceedings to geta share of the miserable treasure. spoils the whole point of treasure finding.....
its 700 feet under massive pressure
That's the main (only) reason they revealed the booty price... if they had the means to recover it themselves I dun think they would have revealed it....
@@drkneevil He says 3,000 feet.
My sentiments exactly. They know where it's at. They have current video of it. They're showing it so whatever pressure there was doesn't seem to be an issue to get video of it. And gold is not their Holy Grail. Blood is. And it doesn't belong to any government. It belongs to Indigenous families.
Another video says 700 feet down, so is it 3000 or 700? Big difference. They weren't stealing from Colombia; Colombia wasn't Colombia back then. Classic example of a modern lens out of historical focus. Also, you don't just "hoist a ship" like this from the deep hahaha, stupid Today anchor. It's in bits and pieces scattered all over the ocean floor.
Possibly the rewriting of history in those artifacts.
well no just the physical prove of already written history..so kind to a test for written history
It should be used to build schools, hospitals and universities.
Put me in an ocean gate and I'll get the treasure
I been thinking about them I wonder if the death was instant or if in a second they realized
@@mitchellerobersondeath itself was instant but they knew something was very wrong. They ended up turning vertical and plummeting straight down after the initial descent so everyone would have fallen towards the nose of the sub and they most definitely heard cracking before the implosion
A crew of 600 ?!? And it sunk with all hands… it’s clear what happened; The Ship was overweight/Unbalanced , the British probably sank her with 2-4 16 pounders to the hull. Sunk in 15 min or less
It would have sank anyway
Yeah thats it exactly......Omg
You are truly brilliant.
At first I thought it said "up to $208 in treasure" and I was like "well, seems pointless to me, but everybody's gotta have a hobby".
I had a dream about this!!!!!! It was like I was seeing the underwater vehicles combing over the treasure in my dream. I had that dream some time ago
Maybe that was no "dream"....😊 (remote seeing?)
Was it a wet dream?
@@seeharvester Now now ... be respectful (that's a $20 bil dream right there! No joke!) 😁
Even if I got "just" 0.01% I couldn't sleep whole night(s)! 😆
@@CP-28
Yes Sir!
I bet Spain thinks it's theirs, such a Spanish thing to think
yeah lol...crooks
It belongs to all Hispanic countries! Back then, we were all part of Spanish empire! The majority of Colombians and most other Hispanics are of partial or full Spanish heritage!! Spain is our motherland!!
Because it is literally theirs. It was a Spanish ship with gold mined in their own territory. The independent republic of Colombia didn’t exist at the time.
@@dannyvazquez7004 Suuurely
@@dannyvazquez7004 Which would be fair, if on one hand they had mined that gold, which they did not, it was the Spaniards. The Qhara Qhara people in Bolivia already demonstrated that literally the Spaniards stole that gold when they expelled them. The gold is stolen, it's not theirs, besides being from the colonial era it doesn't help them.
I wanna get a hand on those treasures!
i wannt get a few buckets full of that treasure in my minivan, and not tell my wife about it.
no no its mine! right thats it im gonna go and get the treasure, here i go!! 😈
One of the first rules of life you learn as a child is...
Finders Keepers.
Then you grow up and learn that the real world is more complicated than that.
@@moteroargentino7944
Yeah, you find out it's "Stealers Keepers".
Interesting how human values things
i bet no-one has an eye patch or a parrot or has to walk the plank or even arrange a proper mutiny. it's all $$$, there's no panache any more
AAAAAAH PLEASE!!!
THE TRULY HOLY GRAIL OF SUNKEN SHIPWRECK BOUNTY!!!
LOOK SERIOUSLY IN JAMAICA'S PORT ROYAL..THAT'S THE MOTHER OF ALL HOLY GRAILS!!!
After current inflation adjustments experts have determined its only worth about $350
It’s gold silly. It’s not subject to inflation.. that’s why countries that are on a “gold standard “ have 0 inflation
@hondaxl250k0 Based on my studies at SwishaHouse University, my analysis says otherwise
Are they going to pay the finders fee?
How is it a "race"? It's been sitting there for over 300 years and they've known where it is for about 40 years. They aren't racing. They're taking their time trying to figure out how to do it.
Yup, that’s what I was thinking
Or who can claim. It
If there's a race to 20B I'm pretty sure the competition is very Intense and ofcourse Deadly
Give it to the indigenous people who it was stolen from. Build new schools.
it belongs in a museum end of no one should be allowed to own it for personal use
@@user-sp6kf5dm7o Which would be fair, if on one hand they had mined that gold, which they did not, it was the Spaniards. The Qhara Qhara people in Bolivia already demonstrated that literally the Spaniards stole that gold when they expelled them. The gold is stolen, it's not theirs, besides being from the colonial era it doesn't help them.
It rightfully belongs to the Americans who found it in 1981
Yes, please put in a museum!!!
sure, after the corrupt politicians and drug cartels take most of the 'loot' before it finally ends up in the museum.
The only question is can Colombia feed its people with money from this wreckage? Can they levy it against taxes for the poor?
Very interesting. Love to hear results
I'm skeptical of the underwater footage, that fish lying at the bottom looks suspiciously identical to a freshwater "Pleco" lol
Buddy that ain’t no “Pleco” lol 😂😂. Tho they may have a similar look. That is a saltwater dwelling specie depicted in the video,
@@johnnylego807 A suspiciously unnamed "saltwater dwelling species" you say, well I'm convinced lol
I better get Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko to help me with this heist before Pops tries to catch me.
All that gold belongs to the indigenous people of South America.
Hardly,they have no claim.
@@andyvanm1 yes, they have .The Qhara Qhara people in Bolivia already demonstrated that literally the Spaniards stole that gold when they expelled them. The gold is stolen, it's not theirs, besides being from the colonial era it doesn't help them.Which would be fair, if on one hand they had mined that gold, which they did not, it was the Spaniards.
@@carlosdavidsabogalmotta4327 That ship sank over 300 years ago.
Theres millions of lost wrecks out there under the sea, so much lost. We dont know how much ?
Can you imagine how much treasure Spain stole from the Philippines?
And how many countries were stolen from América through history?????????????????
Seems that the only empire in history were Spain and not the OTHERS
ROME
GREECE
PORTUGAL
AMERICA
BELGIUM
FRANCE
GERMANY
RUSSIA
ETC........
All these countries and empires with hundreds more, stole from others and you know it.
No.
How much?
Not more than south america
Nothing
you can't stel from complete broke, that's what the Phillippines has always been
Good morning everyone
It belongs to Colombia 🇨🇴 period.
Wait so this treasure would make every person in Colombia comfortable but nah “we will just look at it in a museum” ya right corruption!! Oh the TOM FOOLERY
It should be given to Spain. Most of Colombia is European or African. There are few indigenous people left.
Then give it to the indigenous
It wasn’t “stealing from Colombia”. Colombia didn’t exist at the time. The area was known as Nueva Granada and it was a Spanish territory. The spanish were mining gold in their own territory.
Spain should get involved :)
Colombia has found the one piece 😂
Who ever touches it first, wins.
Guess time to start my pirate training & find the true ONE PIECE.
If this was already in the news and US knows how much it's total worth that means it's already recovered probably a year ago.
These finds should be in museum. For generation sake.
they will be obviously
On the other hand ... 20 billion cleverly invested could feed literal generations of a group of people.
But why feed people when you could just stare at some shiny things?
Yeah.
Not realy a desicion come to think of.
Yeah.
Lets put it in a museum and not do anything actually usefull with it.
Or put it into some science projects.
Nah.
Lets make pictures of it \o/
Or use it to fund other salvaging projects like this.
Nah.
Just *this* one time ... we stuff it in a museum ... just for once ... we will stare at it ;)
Whose going to Columbia to see the treasure if recovered. Not me
Interesting that someone else found it, Columbia wouldn't let them salvage, claimed they found it in a new location, and are keeping exclusive rights to it. They would never have found it without the original salvage company.
Will come to your house and take whatever l can find in your basement. Do you agree to that. ?
Interesting that the salvage company claimed to have found it back in the 80s, didn't say anything until now that Colombia wants to take it out of the sea floor
@@675R1 Colombia's crook president doesn't want to pay Salvages company fees they agreed upon. He wants everything for himself.
Unfortunately they have no right to the treasure only columbia does.
*Colombia, not *Columbia 🤣
Thanks so much for sharing. Congratulations Columbia, your ancestors did not die unknown
One wonders what the British acheived by sinking the ship .... they probably were hoping to seize the tresure before sinking it ...
At the end of the day, someone is going to get richer, and others will be fooled, for sure. Those who will be in possession of the treasure will make sure that others will have to pay to see it.
I can't believe that co-host was dumb enough to think they'll try to raise the ship. They're after the treasure, not some rotten wood!
The gall of Spain to claim the ship and the gold. lol
the ship belongs to Spain but the gold belongs to Columbia
That ship's construction was most likely financed by the gold Spain stole from Colombia, so technically even the ship is not truly theirs. @@user-sp6kf5dm7o
So bold of Spain to claim what they stole. 😂
Any millionaire's have a makeshift sub I can borrow? Oh wait.... guess not. 💥
To be precise: It was not Colombia at that time, all south American land (except Brazil and the Guyanas) was part of the Spanish empire, so legally, the treasure was not stolen.
And, slave force was the common labor for the time, also for the English, Dutch and French that colonized the Americas, so the comment they made is irrelevant for the news release.
That gold belongs to Poseidon
imagine being the American company that found it first only to see the Columbian government do their own search after realizing they had a valuable shipwreck in their territory. that American company should had just taken it without saying anything to the government. I'm sure they could have bribed the local officials off and pretend they're doing oceanic research.
Mmmm, there is something called territorial and or international waters, just like there is airspace that’s “owned” by countries. The Colombian government and people have every right to this treasure, it was theirs to begin with some 300 years ago as the Spaniards stole it from Colombian natives at that time. Not everything is about the good ole USA.
And even if we got to keep that treasure, do you actually think the US Government would give us Americans 1/2% of that 20 billion? C’mon.
Supposedly they found it in 1982 but all of a sudden now that Colombia wants to take it out of the sea floor they come forward claiming the USA found it first? Come on, USA doesn't know how to mind their own business, if they found it first according to them then why didn't they say so back in 1982? Why wait until now? Rightfully it belongs to Colombia because like the person before myself mentioned it's on the territorial waters of Colombia so the USA has no reason to be there
And get caught
A company salvage a ship in international waters Spain said it was theirs and American courts agreed
American companies can’t take it.
@@offthewallsurfer1 That money will go to pay the USA National debt to the Rothchild banksters.
100% of the stolen gold is rightfully the property of the living descendants of the Aztec and Maya. So Columbia's approach makes good sense to me. National treasure--repatriated.
@SaberToothBicycle LOL, you need to read a book on pre-Columbian meso-America. The Maya and the Aztecs were never near Colombia.
Oh boy......
The Audacity of the Spanish Government to say "That is our gold, turn it over to us immediately" when it was forcibly stolen and the ship still sits sunk next to the crime location... Why you ask? O, because the stolen goods is on a Navel vessel.
We need to seriously look at and change these salvage laws asap! If you don't make true effort in a set period of time to get it, if you have first claim, then it's on to the next.
Uncharted 4 remake looks great
JFC, Columbia, how about a 10% finder fee less the cost of recovery?
🆗, but the ship belongs to the king 👑 of Spain. Spain 🇪🇸 still has a king… so does he have right over the ship 🚢❓❓send them the ship without the gold
Yes, I think exactly the same. They can take their ship.
The descendants of those slaves and further marginalized demographics should be at the forefront of who benefits from this treasure, in a significant way.
If they can even be traced.
No. The descendants aren't current slaves. Put it all in a museum.
Unfortunately, descendants if even can be traced, won’t pocket one American cent, 90 percent back to Columbia the country , 10 percent to private enterprise who goes down to retrieve it..
Lol 😅
no this is national property and world heritage ...not for sell to ultra rich to have these as toys...
Truly amazing really
Sweeeet treasure how to take of the bottom a few ships with long cables like in sand clawscoops wider then and somewhat made like strainer tiniest possible for all to take from the outside area into shipwrecks center site. No need for deep diving equipment effort take photos and scoop that treasurea s you claw scoop it.
Your method of extraction would destroy any precious artifacts left.
It belongs to Spain! 🇪🇦
Yes, the ship belongs to Spain. The gold and the silver to Colombia, Perú, and Bolivia.
Pirate$ and scammer$ are just drooling trying to figure out how to get a piece of eight.
Definitely belongs to Colombia
Well time to get back into scuba diving so I never have to work again.
Gold that belonged to native South Americans who were killed by Spanish conquistador and the invasion of the British. This gold is stained with the blood of many indigenas who were forced to dig out the gold. Before black slavery Indigenas were enslaved, and suffered a lot during this invasion.
True, but look at Colombia's population today (or any spanish ex colony). The indigenous blood certainly didn't disappear, it merged with other ethnicities into what's the current inhabitants.
The Spanish empire was as dirty as any empire, but they did go an extra mile to actually preserve native culture and integrate them into society, instead of killing them off or shoving them into reservations.
no mention of pirates, whew
Of course it can’t be separated 😂
Treasure salvors are going to make a ton on this😎🇺🇸
nah this is national property by law
@@cr-it5lh just might be.
Thing is that Colombia lacks the domestic ability to salvage the wreck, so they’ve got to make a deal with those that can:)
i doubt the Colombian goverment would allow that they will probley get to keep a silver coin has a thank you token for helping with the salvage but that will be all
@@user-sp6kf5dm7o Colombian government isn’t capable of salvaging it, so they’re gonna have to make a deal with the salvors.
How many billions will it take to salvage it?
Don't worry about the cost , coca leaves will take care of that !
Everytime I go to Columbia I take the biggest coke dumps
Then you don't really know what Colombia is. First, write it correctly, it is not "Columbia", or were you high all the times that you entered and stayed there? It is not that difficult to read an Airport sign, so, I guess you were also high, when you took off from your country
i find Gold can as Disney to make enchanted tales again
+40 years of talking does not bring anything up to shore… just hope they succeed one day soon.. 😊😊
Ah yes, the famous 'native Colombian' dishware.
Thank you Britain 💥😂
How much are they going to give this Black people of Cartina Colombia, which is the blackest portion of Columbia? How much reparation are they going to give them?
we have spent more then that one the ones that came here illegally
How hard is it for you guys to spell the right name of that country?, COLOMBIA!
Hopefully they will get nothing. All of this treasure belongs in a museum.
@@AngelGonzalez-pd4cnYes, I'm wondering too. A lot of people spelling it wrong. It is "Colombia". I don't see any 'u' in there
Don't you have geography lessons where you live? I mean, if you are going to discuss a topic, then please inform yourself first at least about the basics, period.
They found the One Piece 😂😂
Belongs to Colombia.
No doubt poachers are already hitting that location.. and the government is struggling to keep the sight unplundered. A small crew could hoist up a single chest after a storm and be set for life.
The Colombian Navy has presence there Subs and Frigates.... 24/7
That's impressive.. so their not doing their normal job? They better be careful.. its going to cost them more then what what the treasure is worth@@godprotectsme2712
20 Billion...yea nobody is getting close to that area.
It's heavily guarded already!!
It's almost 2,000 ft. deep. It would take a whole expedition crew ship with specialized equipment that only few people in the world have. It would probably take several days just to loot some and the Peruvian Navy would see this. Very easy to guard for a Navy.
That's my money and I need it now!
Spain owned “Columbia” at that time, so not “stealing” at all.
Colombia was actually part of Spain. They should divide it among al the territories that were spain at that time.
Which would be fair, if on one hand they had mined that gold, which they did not, it was the Spaniards. The Qhara Qhara people in Bolivia already demonstrated that literally the Spaniards stole that gold when they expelled them. The gold is stolen, it's not theirs, besides being from the colonial era it doesn't help them.
Let me get out my old scuba gear out,
The only national historical treasure for me is to find the remain of OceanGate.
And fun fact. All the gold we have on earth, came from space.
Since the Royal Navy sunk this vessel the treasure rightly belongs GS to Britain.