Mr. Barry Clifford may have found the Santa Maria. The ship was lost off Haiti on its last voyage in December, 1492 when it ran aground on a reef.
The really interesting part of the story is that Mr. Clifford found the wreck back in 2003, but didn’t realize its significance. He found some ballast stones and a ship’s cannon. That cannon was misclassified in 2003. Two years ago, while researching the cannons in use during Columbus’ time, he awoke in the middle of the night with a ‘Eureka’ moment.
Two or three weeks ago he returned to the site with experts. They measured and photographed and found a few items missing, apparently looted over the intervening decade.
Prof. Charles Beeker of IU stated he found the evidence uncovered so far “very compelling”. They’ll be excavating more in the near future.
It would be remarkable (and truly cool) if it really turned out to be the Santa Maria.
Source:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Diver-may-have-found-Columbus-ship/25947714