How to find a billion-dollar shipwreck
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 1:00.9 | trial at Shopify.com slash setup. In 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose was sunk by a British warship off the coast of Colombia, |
| 1:17.3 | vanishing beneath the waves with a treasure trove of unimaginable riches. |
| 1:22.4 | The wreck's exact location remained a mystery for centuries |
| 1:25.6 | until a maritime archaeologist named Roger Dooley |
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