I'm back and this is how I show it: Chris Columboe's SHIP WAS found....... after 500 years!

I won't even get started on the bullshit-star-spangled story of Christopher Columbus and his journey of discovering the 'new world' and how historically INACCURATE it is (do your research and draw your own conclusion) but I will say this: They found the Santa Maria after 500 years. There you have it..... that's the whole article summed up after the colon.

HOWEVER..... If, by chance, you happen to be interested in the details of this discovery you may want to continue to read. If you continue to read then you will be more informed than the 'summed up' reader, although truthfully you both still reach the same conclusion.


I'm not quite sure when the exact date of the discovery was but I'm assuming within the last 4 days (most likely the weekend IMO), shoot they discovered this wreck over a decade ago and just now figured out what it was (and again.....truthfully.... better late than never). Read the ORIG article here (via independent.co.uk)

"More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries."

... “All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus’ famous flagship, the Santa Maria,” said the leader of a recent reconnaissance expedition to the site, one of America’s top underwater archaeological investigators, Barry Clifford. 

This is still neat one way or the other. It astounds me that a ship (particularly one made up of wood) was able to survive so long underwater though. I'm not quite sure about all of the factors in underwater decomposition but I'm under the impression that after 100+ years your S*#t would be gone.... let alone 500.

Tentatively identifying the wreck as the Santa Maria has been made possible by quite separate discoveries made by other archaeologists in 2003 suggesting the probable location of Columbus’ fort relatively nearby. Armed with this new information about the location of the fort, Clifford was able to use data in Christopher Columbus’ diary to work out where the wreck should be.