Blumenfeld Associates Inc. reports that Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria may have finally been discovered. This is what they say:
More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators now believe they have finally discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains 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, maritime archaeological investigator Barry Clifford, of Provincetown, Mass. ( http://www.whydah.com).
“I am confident that a full excavation of the wreck will yield the first-ever detailed marine archaeological evidence of Columbus’ discovery of America.”
Clifford, 68, has carried out survey work on literally dozens of historic wrecks in different parts of the world over the past four decades – and was the discoverer and excavator of the world’s first fully verified pirate shipwreck, the Whydah, in 1984, and more recently discovered Captain Kidd’s flagship off Madagascar.
The investigation into the wreck is being supported by the American TV network, HISTORY, which has secured the exclusive rights to produce a major television program on the subject.
Read the Tuesday (May 13) story about the discovery in the U.K.’s The Independent newspaper at:
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