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Spanish Navy finds 100 shipwrecks in hunt for treasure

Spanish Navy vessels looking for sunken treasure off the country's coast have found about 100 possible shipwrecks.

Two minesweepers and other vessels, on a mission to protect the country's historical heritage from private salvagers, located the sites in Atlantic waters off the southwestern city of Cadiz as part of a campaign that began Sept. 8 and is due to last two months, the Culture Ministry said.

Spain wants to avoid a repeat of a saga that began in 2007 when Tampa, a Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, found a sunken Spanish galleon and salvaged from it an estimated $500 million in silver coins and other artifacts....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)