Episode 42: The San Jose Galleon

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Domingo Antonio Perez, Plano y descripción de la costa y Provincia de Cartagena de Yndias, 1729 [image source: Library of Congress]
Detail from 1729 map
President Juan Manuel Santos with the map presented to him by Roger Dooley [image source: ABC]
Samuel Scott, Wagner’s Action off Cartagena, 1747, oil on canvas [image source: Wikipedia] — context if needed: the San Jose is the one blowing up!
Very cool artwork featured in the 2022 Vanity Fair article, by the incredible artist Yuko Shamizu [image source: YukoArt.com]
San Jose Infographic [image source: El Pais]
Chinese porcelain teacups at wreck site [image source: Colombian Ministry of Culture via WHOI]
Gold pesos at the wreck site [image source: EPA]
Infographic of the San Jose [image source: Colombian Corners]
Readying the Remus 6000 for deployment [image source: Mike Purcell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
Key members of the team that found the San Jose [image source: GK Consulting]
Search Team — WHOI researchers (right to left) Greg Packard, Neil McPhee, Eric Hayden, Mike Purcell, Jeff Kaeli, Lt. Julio Monroy of the Colombian Navy, and David Oliver of Benthic Geoscience [image source: Mike Purcell, WHOI]
Canadian maritime sonar expert Gary Kozak with the Remus 6000 [image source: GK Consulting]
Sonar image of the San Jose wreck site [image source: GK Consulting]
Grid mosaic of wreck site by Jeff Kaeli [image source: WHOI]
Map of Wreck Site [image source: GK Consulting]
Dolphins on the San Jose canons [image source: Reuters video]
Example of bronze canon with dolphin-molded handles (NOT from the San Jose) [image source: Bullock Texas State History Museum]

Happy listening!

-Lindsay

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