TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sancton,Julian
TI  - Neptune's fortune: the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire 
SN  - 9780593594179
AV  - G530.S252 S26 2026
U1  - 910/.9861 23/eng/20251217
PY  - 2026///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown
KW  - Dooley, Roger.
KW  - San Jos�e (Galleon)
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Bar�u Island
KW  - Treasure troves
KW  - Treasure hunting
KW  - Marine archaeologists
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Biography
KW  - Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714
KW  - Naval operations, Spanish.
KW  - Atlantic Ocean
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Jos�e. 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. But that ship, the galleon San Jos�e, met a darker fate. It was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena, and when the smoke cleared, the San Jos�e and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the [ship]. 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--or nothing at all"--
ER  -