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"I just sat there for about 10 minutes and smiled…I'm not a marine archaeologist, but…I know what a cannon looks like. So in that moment I guess I was the only person in the world who knew we'd found the shipwreck."

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The location of the San Jose shipwreck and the buried treasure it contains is still a secret (so don't go getting any ideas), and estimates have that treasure worth as much as $17 billion altogether. That's more than enough to create conflicts over the rightful ownership of the loot, but Kaeli points out that there are more important things than precious stones and gold when considering the importance of the find:

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"Everyone is focused on the treasure aspect….The whole thing is a cultural treasure. It's a piece of history that's sitting on the sea floor that tells a story."

Since it was a Spanish ship, Spain has claimed the treasure as its own, while Colombia also claims ownership rights as that's where the ship wrecked over 300 years ago. However that situation shakes out, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is interested in historical significance rather than treasure.