Exclusive: Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbus’s flagship the Santa Maria (David Keys)

More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries. (independent.co.uk)