Part of the ship suspected to be La Fortuna is out of the water. More than 40 pieces of timber were collected as part of an “emergency recovery” to save the wood from erosion and other threats. Photo ...

Alongside Florida’s Atlantic shoreline, a team of divers has turned the legend of the “Treasure Coast” into reality once again. They uncovered more than 1,000 silver and gold coins, worth an estimated ...

Divers have recovered over 1,000 coins from a shipwreck off the east coast of Florida. The coins were discovered this summer within the historical "Treasure Fleet" of Spanish ships that sank in July ...

Four shipwrecks — including the remains believed to be a 1748 Spanish privateer ship — were recently found at a historical site in North Carolina. A team of archeologists with East Carolina University ...

"Neptune's Fortune" by Julian Sancton details marine archaeologist Roger Dooley's quest to find the sunken Spanish galleon, the San José. The book explores the history of treasure hunting and its ...