The Lost Galleon: Where Is the San José?

This fascinating book offers us, for the first time, the true story of the galleon San José, the ship that, having set sail from Panama to Spain, sank near the Rosario Islands on June 8, 1708, in the middle of a battle. with English ships that tried to appropriate their cargo.

In a carefully documented work, the engineer and geologist Jorge Bendeck Olivella exposes the background, incidents and consequences of the event, as well as the attempts to rescue the treasure that must be there and the obstacles and ambitions that have stood in the way. Despite everything, the author assures, "The galleon San José exists. Its hull and its treasures are there in the sea, surrounded by the aura of mysteries drawn by the souls of more than six hundred sailors and passengers who sank with it."

The Spanish Galleon Fleet was the body in charge of protecting merchant ships from attacks by pirates and enemies of the empire on the journey between the metropolis and American ports.