Inside the race to recover a sunken ship and up to $20B in treasure

Inside the race to recover a sunken ship and up to $20B in treasure

There is a race to the bottom of the sea off the coast of Colombia to recover a sunken Spanish war ship — and up to $20 billion in treasure on the ocean floor. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

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50 Comments

  1. @itsonlyafl3shwound on December 26, 2023 at 9:20 am

    Exactly why you shouldn’t say anything when you find
    Something!

  2. @user-wp3zh9xy7g on December 26, 2023 at 9:22 am

    Well time to get back into scuba diving so I never have to work again.

  3. @JimmyRogers-he4eq on December 26, 2023 at 9:24 am

    So over thousands years or less before these men in government was even born yet a wooden ship made from tree put in a saltwater ocean hmmm 🤔 common sense logic wood warp in water and sink and yet treasure be down in saltwater ocean that men don’t own it and any countries and islands and continent that is the entire world know as earth 🌎 meaning that treasures and shipwreck be at the bottom of the ocean and no one ever search for any shipwreck or even try to search for it even when it sink now they want to cry we own it that including salvage crews men in government around the world in every countries don’t own any shipwreck or right to claim it ocean is free and it been here before the dinosaur that God created earth 🌎 and ocean one body of land one body of ocean that 8 billion people live in earth 🌎 meaning any men women children find shipwreck keep treasure to finders keepers is the only law I find it it mine to keep including the ship no atifiicts or history value it wooden ship is completely destroyed by salt methane gas erosion especially been in the bottom of sand and salt thousands years including water and fish 💩 poop cover for thousands years of trillion and trillion of all sizes of fish and bacteria 🦠

  4. @DiepSpartan119 on December 26, 2023 at 9:25 am

    I guess we stay middle class people 😢

  5. @jorgecirino1976 on December 26, 2023 at 9:25 am

    Finally Colombia be rich 😂

  6. @i_dont_live_here on December 26, 2023 at 9:25 am

    Cute. It’s ours and can’t be separated 🤡💀

  7. @imnotyourp on December 26, 2023 at 9:26 am

    Amber Heard: "I think Johnny Depp is to blame….can I try to sue again?"

  8. @minime6814 on December 26, 2023 at 9:28 am

    And fun fact. All the gold we have on earth, came from space.

  9. @stevenshaffer343 on December 26, 2023 at 9:28 am

    NATHAN DRAKE!!!!!!!!

  10. @donniegrande9186 on December 26, 2023 at 9:28 am

    exchange for cocaine lol

  11. @Chulitatr on December 26, 2023 at 9:28 am

    The Columbian leaders want to keep the treasures for themselves. 😡

  12. @edward8606 on December 26, 2023 at 9:29 am

    That treasure is goimg straight into their pockets. They’ll make fake treasure to put in the museum

  13. @imnotyourp on December 26, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Ben Crump is on the way to collect his 40%

  14. @darkalligator on December 26, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Belongs to Colombia.

  15. @NoOffSwitch on December 26, 2023 at 9:31 am

    If there’s a race to 20B I’m pretty sure the competition is very Intense and ofcourse Deadly

  16. @mkdesu on December 26, 2023 at 9:31 am

    One Piece:?

  17. @blackpanther8219 on December 26, 2023 at 9:32 am

    I say the treasurer belongs to Colombia 🇨🇴

  18. @Livinguud on December 26, 2023 at 9:35 am

    The spaniards stole it in the first place. Its fair game.

  19. @stephenkemp3372 on December 26, 2023 at 9:35 am

    This is going to go nuclear with greed

  20. @eliochee on December 26, 2023 at 9:36 am

    It wasn’t a colony it was a legally established viceroyalty

  21. @glenmelville1674 on December 26, 2023 at 9:37 am

    Its "Blood money" leave it where it is!.

  22. @matthewona on December 26, 2023 at 9:42 am

    These ships were so laden with wealth that it actually glutted the Spanish Empire’s economy leading to its eventual decline. It paid for Spain’s wars but was never invested in the country’s growth

  23. @Stoneabba9999 on December 26, 2023 at 9:44 am

    Trust Columbia? Lol

  24. @831farmeros2 on December 26, 2023 at 9:46 am

    It belongs to Spain! 🇪🇦

  25. @criztu on December 26, 2023 at 9:47 am

    All of it belongs to the Habsburg emperors! ordained by God!

  26. @guillandanthony711 on December 26, 2023 at 9:47 am

    At the end of the day, someone is going to get richer, and others will be fooled, for sure. Those who will be in possession of the treasure will make sure that others will have to pay to see it.

  27. @dowwjohn8850 on December 26, 2023 at 9:47 am

    700ft not 3000ft😮

  28. @tupaccarlin2223 on December 26, 2023 at 9:48 am

    Pirates everywhere

  29. @castillramsey5741 on December 26, 2023 at 9:48 am

    They found the One Piece 😂😂

  30. @user-eg6pt8rs3l on December 26, 2023 at 9:51 am

    Ambition is a virtue but greed is unbearable.

  31. @raypatterson1561 on December 26, 2023 at 9:51 am

    It belongs to Colombia 🇨🇴 period.

  32. @mitchyoung93 on December 26, 2023 at 9:52 am

    Ah yes, the famous ‘native Colombian’ dishware.

  33. @voolandashland2914 on December 26, 2023 at 9:55 am

    If Pablo Escobar was still alive in this era, that pile of Gold would be belongs to him. surely. because narcos terms would be non-negotiable.

  34. @nattidread5844 on December 26, 2023 at 9:56 am

    Technically isn’t it Spanish treasure since at that time there was no Colombia, but people of Spanish descent and natives living in that region?

  35. @IamjesusnotGod on December 26, 2023 at 9:57 am

    And the treasure is going to…… JP Morgan 👏 👏 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  36. @JohnDoe-bc8wu on December 26, 2023 at 9:57 am

    Bottom line whose ship was the product on?

  37. @Oniontrololol on December 26, 2023 at 9:58 am

    Spain should get involved 🙂

  38. @Mark-fh5lp on December 26, 2023 at 9:58 am

    Don’t worry, the drug cartels will get to it before anyone else does.

  39. @javieracevedo4069 on December 26, 2023 at 10:02 am

    Definitely belongs to Colombia

  40. @setituptoblowitup on December 26, 2023 at 10:07 am

    That technology is getting better and better, can’t wait to see it preserved 🤩 leave it to the British to sink a true treasure ship😂🙄

  41. @elpatron8696 on December 26, 2023 at 10:07 am

    So all the descendents of the slave labor should get compensated not the government

  42. @johndoe12434 on December 26, 2023 at 10:09 am

    Does it take science to know where the gold belongs? It was stolen from the natives! That one only one ship, what about all the others ships?

  43. @memphiscalifornia2195 on December 26, 2023 at 10:10 am

    IT BELONGS TO SPAIN..

  44. @snowyoasis629 on December 26, 2023 at 10:10 am

    Let me get a coin! 🙋🏼‍♂️

  45. @hesoyam4795 on December 26, 2023 at 10:11 am

    They need Kortopi

  46. @Psycandy on December 26, 2023 at 10:13 am

    no mention of pirates, whew

  47. @Dom999-su9lu on December 26, 2023 at 10:17 am

    Haha not if i find it first

  48. @juanfervalencia on December 26, 2023 at 10:18 am

    It should be used to build schools, hospitals and universities.

  49. @yo2trader539 on December 26, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Europeans "stole" the Americas, so only the indigenous people have the claim to anything.

  50. @mkdesu on December 26, 2023 at 10:18 am

    1:02 " and then ran into a british warship" of course it did haha

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