Who has the right to the wreck and its cargo?
Most likely: colombia owns the wreck as submerged cultural heritage in its waters under Law 1675 of 2013Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Five answers have been proposed. Colombia owns the wreck as submerged cultural heritage in its waters under Law 1675 of 2013. leads, with evidence 2 for: partly supported by its tests. Four are still possible. Of the one narrower question under it, none is answered yet.
Answers 5
History
- Permanent Court of Arbitration: colombia argues the claims are time-barred and that SSA holds no investment; it says SSA never found the ship.Against: Sea Search Armada is entitled to half the treasure under the 2007 Supreme Court ruling because its 1982 find…
- Reuters puts forward: the San José remains Spanish state property as a sunken warship with sovereign immunity.
- Reuters puts forward: the silver is shared heritage of the Bolivian nations whose ancestors mined it at Potosí.
- Reuters: spain treats the ship as a state vessel and an underwater grave not to be exploited commercially.For: The San José remains Spanish state property as a sunken warship with sovereign immunity.
- Reuters: the Killakas, Carangas and Chichas peoples asked Spain and UNESCO in 2024 to declare the galleon common…For: The silver is shared heritage of the Bolivian nations whose ancestors mined it at Potosí.
- U.S. Naval Institute puts forward: sea Search Armada is entitled to half the treasure under the 2007 Supreme Court ruling because its 1982 find…
- U.S. Naval Institute: colombia located the wreck in 2015 at a position it says differs from SSA's, and has exercised control since.For: Colombia owns the wreck as submerged cultural heritage in its waters under Law 1675 of 2013.
- U.S. Naval Institute: the 2007 ruling granted an equal split of anything at SSA's registered coordinates.For: Sea Search Armada is entitled to half the treasure under the 2007 Supreme Court ruling because its 1982 find…
- Mendoza: the tribunal granted SSA an evidence-preservation protocol, which keeps the coordinates question live.For: Sea Search Armada is entitled to half the treasure under the 2007 Supreme Court ruling because its 1982 find…
- Mendoza: the tribunal refused Spain's amicus request at the jurisdictional phase.Against: The San José remains Spanish state property as a sunken warship with sovereign immunity.
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