Wreckage Off Haiti May Be Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria
"Do you remember," he went on, "writing in your diary, 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four'?"
More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, sank in the Caribbean, a team of underwater investigators believes it has located the vessel's remains off the northern coast of Haiti----a discovery that, if proved, would be one of the most significant maritime archaeological finds.
"Yes," said Winston.
"I'm very, very confident that we've found the site," said Barry Clifford, a noted maritime archaeologist and leader of a recent expedition to the wreck. But "I think from an academic point of view, we have to be quite careful and investigate it thoroughly."
O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
Marine archaeologists were giddy at the prospect of having found the ship Columbus used on his maiden voyage to the Americas in 1492.
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