Doom-n-Gloom!

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 The cannon below is from a Spanish Treasure Galleon lost at sea - sunk by a hurricane - and with it, her crew and passengers, including religious dignitaries and Spanish nobleman and their caches of gold, silver and jewels and African Slaves.

Along with their deaths and that of ship, the death-knellof Spain's economy was sounded. Just as the waves swept across the decks of the ship and the fleet around her, as an ecomomic depression swept across Spain's entire economic landscape, for the ship and the fleet she sailed with contained a weath of items required by the King to pay his debts made in the name of his nation.

Calls on the ship of "God Save our gold and our possessions!" that quickly turned to cries of "God Save our lives and our country!" were not heard that day, nor during the ensuing months, years, decades and centuries of decline that followed... 

Friday the 13th spelled D-O-O-M -N- G-L-O-O-M for a fleet of Spanish Galleons, and thus, the economy and country of Spain...for as a result of the fleet's loss, she and her people plunged into an economic depression.

The fleet sailed from the port of Havana, Cuba...loaded with Spanish treasure.

The fleet never made it to Spain, as she met a hurricane head on and went down between Key West, at the tip of the Florida Keys and present day Miami.

The number of ships lost that day remains undetermined. Over the course of nearly 300 years, many have been found.

At least a few of those ships were known to be amongst the missing ones, while others rumored to be with the fleet that day, were listed merely as unaccounted for officially.

Recently, one or more of those missing galleons were uncovered. While only one ship has been officially documented, the gold, silver and jewel field is so vast that divers don't believe one galleon could have carried it all. Enjoy the ride, or dive that takes you through the doom-n-gloom of a hurricane's bloated belly, a ship filled with gold.