Colombia's government on Friday (Feb 23) announced that it would launch an underwater exploration effort in order to investigate and recover artefacts that were discovered on a Spanish galleon that sank in the Colombian Caribbean over 300 years ago.
The officials said that for the exploration mission, they would use an underwater robot guided by the multi-purpose vessel that would gather information about the sunken ship.
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