The Nuestra Seora de las Maravillas is located in the Bahamas.
There are two glass wine bottles, a pearl ring, a gold and emerald pendant, and a silver sword hilt.
The finds will be on display at the new Bahamas Maritime Museum, created by the Government of the Bahamas and founded by Carl Allen, an explorer, philanthropist and founder of Allen Exploration.
My breath got caught in my throat when we brought up the pendant. The miracle of the Maravillas is how these tiny pendants survived in these harsh waters.
The treasures were found along an eight mile stretch of the ocean floor.
In the statement, Allen said that the wreck had been salvaged by Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Bahamian and American expeditions in the 17th and 18th centuries. The remains were ground to dust, according to some people.
The colorful coral that divers remembered from the 70s is gone because it is poisoned by ocean acidification and chokes by meters of shifting sand. It's hard to understand. There are still sparkling finds on the grey reefs.
The ship might have been destroyed by previous storms. James Sinclair said there are more stories out there.
There will be a new museum in the country.
"For a nation built from the ocean, it's amazing how little is understood about its maritime links," Dr. Michael Pateman said in the press release.
The Indigenous Lucayan peoples have been here 1,300 years. Up to 50,000 people were forced out by Spanish guns and killed off in less than 30 years. There was a lot of old world culture in the country. The Lucayans, slave trade, pirates, and Maravillas are some of the stories we are telling in the museum.
The 17th century Nuestra Seora de las Maravillas was a two-deck Spanish ship that sank on a voyage from the Americas to Spain carrying treasures.
The ship sank after a navigation error. There were 650 people on the board.
After the ship sank, the wreck was quickly relocated and people have been trying to find some of the sunken treasure for hundreds of years.
Robert Marx salvaged some of what was left after finding the remains. Between 1986 and the early 1990s, more remains were salvaged.
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