Coins, cannons and more found near Spanish galleon

Colombia's Navy has released images of artifacts found scattered near a Spanish galleon laden with gold that sank to the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago.

Footages show coins, cannon and bottles on the bottom of the sea near the galleon San Jose. On Monday, President Ivan Duque also announced additional discoveries of ships. He said that there are around a dozen other similar ships that will be located by Colombia's Navy. San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Navy.

It was launched in 1698, and sank in battle off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2022. The exact location of the wreck of the San Jose, often called the "holy grail of shipwrecks," was long considered one of history's enduring maritime mysteries.