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The Philippines, 1992 Photograph by Emory Kristof A blue-spotted rock
codfish and a school of smaller fish swim over the sunken hull of the
ill-fated Spanish merchant galleon San Diego. The vessel was sunk by a
Dutch ship in 1600 in the South China Sea near Fortune Island. Among
the wreckage, which settled 170 feet (52 meters) below the sea, were
priceless treasures, including Ming dynasty porcelain. A team from the
European Institute of Underwater Archaeology discovered the ship in
1991 and recovered much of its cargo.

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