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History.com

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Biography.com

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Christopher Columbus died from congestive heart failure

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Chistopher Columbus did not find new worlds their were all ready rulde by indeines.

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Christopher Columbus's ships.

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It may look like just a pile of rocks at the bottom of the ocean, but a world-famous underwater explorer says he has found what would be one of history's biggest discoveries: the shipwreck of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus's flagship vessel on his first voyage to the New World.

Archaeologist Barry Clifford and his team discovered the ship's remains off the coast of Haiti, and shared the news first with the U.K.-based Independent. "All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is ... the Santa Maria," he said in an interview.

The ship, which Columbus sailed together with the Nina and the Pinta in a three-ship voyage to the Americas in 1492, wrecked on Christmas Day after crashing into a coral reef off the northern coast of Haiti. It sank to the bottom of the Caribbean and has been lost to history ever since.

Clifford pieced together the likely location of the ship after a 2003 discovery by other archaeologists of the fort Columbus built on the nearby island of Hispaniola, using timber from the Santa Maria.

The American explorer - who first gained fame when he discovered the pirate shipwreck Whydah back in 1984 - then used Columbus's own diary writings, which described the shipwreck's location in relation to the fort, as well as historical data about local ocean currents and the way the ship would have drifted after the crash.

"We've informed the Haitian government of our discovery - and we are looking forward to working with them and other Haitian colleagues to ensure that the site is fully protected and preserved," Clifford told the Independent.

"I am confident that a full excavation of the wreck will yield the first ever detailed marine archaeological evidence of Columbus' discovery of America," he added.

Clifford and his team have yet to excavate any of the ship's remains; so far, they've only photographed and measured it.

But they feel confident about their discovery thanks to three reasons: the ship's design suggests it originated during Columbus's era, it had a cannon like those carried aboard the Santa Maria, and what's left of it (the ship's "footprint" on the sea floor) "appears to coincide with what would remain of a vessel the size of the Santa Maria," the Washington Post reported.
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Christopher Columbus' Lost Ship, the Santa Maria, May Have Been Found | The Weather Channel

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It may look like just a pile of rocks at the bottom of the ocean, but a world-famous underwater explorer says he has found what would be one of history's biggest discoveries: the shipwreck of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus's flagship vessel on his first voyage to the New World.

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Christopher finds a new world.