Christopher Columbus' Lost Santa Maria May Have Been Found

Oh how can there be any doubt ?

I've been following this one, but have yet to hear any good solid facts.

If they had anything the proved the point, surely they would have said it by now. There has been a stupendous 2 photographs so far, and not one credible artifact.

Maybe a fundraising mission is next. indeed. So far all they seem to have is 'it is in the right location'. I know where the so called Money Pit and Beale Treasure are. Contributions to my expedition gratefully recieved.

Maybe a fundraising mission is next.

You may be right.

I wonder if the case of the Florida based marine salvage company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, having to turn it's find over to the Spanish government (link here and here) is adversely impacting the ability for salvagers/explorers/researchers to get funding.

When I read it right the Santa Maria was dissassembled by Columbus man to build a fort. Therefore all there is left is inprints of the ship, rather than the ship itself. Also there seems to have been a canon years back when the guy was diving there, which is now gone. The most artifacts will already be plundered. All I gather is that the location is said to be this one because they found the leftovers of the fort and hence the ship location is almost certain (due to documents from the time).

If somebody could bring back that canon would help identifying the truth!

It'd be great if they had found the Santa Maria, but I'm struggling to find any solid evidence. Going on what I've read so far it could be any number of ships from the era. For the most part they carry some bit of cargo that enables positive ID. It's geographic location is hardly enough to go on.

But thats maybe all there is! We may never know for sure . . .

It's tactless of me, but given that all the hi-tech is unable to find the missing Malyasian plane, exactly what evidence is there for this find. I've scoped the web and can find nothing to substantaie it. Something rather similar happened in the hunt for the mising aircraft -'give us some money and we can locate it'.

When do you think I should tell them those are all my old lost socks?

Looks a bit like some of the mould growing on my desk .

Hey, It was his first time here. It WAS a discovery for him.

Anyway, it should have been called the "Native American's Land".

And since the Vikings didn't spread the word about their discovery, they lost out on being able to make such a claim.

Columbus set out to do something, discovered something unexpected and let the folks back home know what was going on.

I like the event in the 70's IIRC when a Native American tribe chief took a commercial flight and discovered Italy upon landing and claimed it for his nation.

Hardly seems fair to the Native Americans who had no concept of owning something, but were here first.

The movie, Dances With Wolves comes to mind.

But when did they become native ? Surely for Native Americans it was a discovery at some point in time.

My first thought was Cleveland.

Cleveland Indians Baseball, you know.

But it occurred to me that baseball has not been around long enough to explain this.
So..................................

"The first migration, that led to the majority of Native American populations, was of a single group called the "First Americans" that crossed from Asia to America in a land bridge called Beringia, that existed during the ice ages more than 15,000 years ago, say the researchers, whose efforts were co-ordinated by Professor Andres Ruiz-Linares of the department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London (UCL) in the UK." Native American Ancestors Came From Asia In Three ...

I'm going to build a boat from reeds and disproof all accepted theories. To keep all happy, I may need to land somewhere like Panama and send my merry band of settlers North and South.

Don't forget your American Express Platinum card.

Reeds have gone up in price since the Nile episode.

Are you suggesting I'm not so cute that you wouldn't have me suckle at you very own teet ?

Just try it, buster!

You and Solar have got me very scared ! Punctuation that can be misread (yes, I will), and cars with doors that don't open ! If you lot do BBQ, I'm on the next plane out there !

Man may have sprung from the Earth in North America 50,000+ years ago.....or been placed here by aliens....or evolved from some other hominid species...When they say discovered, they mean by modern Europeans....but man was here long before that....

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm

...I hate to be a pedant, but surely some women were about as well .

Man can mean either sex, or both together....

How can that be? I had neither of both and never together!

Personally I think there is a possibility that light skinned man used to live underground, evolved from cave dwelling hominids that had to move underground to survive at some point, then later found their way to the surface....