The most valuable shipwreck of all time is the San Jos&eacute; galleon&mdash;an 18th century Spanish ship that carried 11 million gold coins, silver, and emeralds&mdash;and worth $20 billion in today's currency. It sunk in a battle with British ships during the War of Spanish Succession and remained completely lost for centuries.&nbsp;That is until a clue to its final resting place was found by the most unlikely &nbsp;person: Roger Dooley, a Cuban-American underwater explorer who helped establish Cuba's national diving program and spent years scouring Caribbean waters for sunken shipwrecks at the behest of Fidel Castro. Dooley wasn&rsquo;t looking for the San Jos&eacute;. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime, the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jos&eacute;. He had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding and excavating the ship powered him across four decades, even as he became a man in exile from the country of his birth. As Dooley jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, he slowly homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreck&mdash;or nothing at all. Today&rsquo;s guest is Julian Sancton, author of &ldquo;Neptune&rsquo;s Fortune: The Billion Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire.&rdquo; We look at the story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of, one man&rsquo;s obsessive quest to find it, and the ongoing fight over excavating this historic shipwreck.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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