Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The best laid plans, as they say, often go awry.

It doesn't matter how much we prepare, when the worst happens there's little we can do

to fight it.

Sometimes the only option is to let a situation play out and hope for the best, even when

hope seems to have run dry.

King Philip of Spain had a plan.

He had planned on harvesting the pearls found along the Mexican coast.

Philip had built three ships in Ocapoco, Mexico, smaller and easier to handle than the enormous

galleons of most Armadas.

They were called caravels, and because of their smaller size, they handled better in the

shallow waters.

In 1612, the completed ships took off.

Each one led by a different captain with a crew of Portuguese slaves.

The slaves were sent into the water to dive down for the pearls at the bottom.

The fleet worked its way up the Pacific coast, with one ship choosing to trade with local

villages for their pearls.

One of the captains, Alvarez de Cordon, was attacked in a trade gone bad and seriously

wounded.

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