Scientists just discovered a sunken ship from 1708, and the loot is worth $17 billion today

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• The 1708 Spanish galleon "San José" was discovered after three centuries.
• The ship was found at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea by an autonomous underwater vehicle during a survey off Colombia's Barú Peninsula.
• It is unknown who will attain the $17 billion of loot. 

For centuries, untold riches of gold, silver, and jewels buried with the world's most valuable shipwreck were dreamt of by generations of sailors, squires, and treasure hunters alike.

But when eyes were finally laid on the so-called 'holy grail of shipwrecks' – the Spanish galleon San José, which went down off the coast of Colombia in 1708 – they were not, in fact, human eyes.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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