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Spanish Galleons Found Off Texas Coast
A Texas survey near Padre Island reports rusted cannons wood debris and ballast on the Gulf seabed suggesting 1553 Spanish galleons. The Institute for Underwater Research led a three phase study with 18 divers and 8 other staff under an Antiquities Committee permit.
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Port Mansfield
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Texas Antiquities Committee
Institute For Underwater Research, Inc
Padre Island
Antiquities Committee
Department of Anthropology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Wendorf
General Land Office
Eugene McDermott
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