Underwater Archaeology
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Since 1950, with the improvement of independent air tanks (the scuba invention), began to be developed a series of activities related to underwater archaeology, and many boats started to search the treasures that still were submerged in the seas. Most of these activities have been concentrated in the Mediterranean and the Antilles geographic areas that for a long time served as a wealth transport bridge that was made from the New World to the Old Continent.
This seeking of treasures provoked the golden age for the “Treasure Hunters Adventurers” those underwater explorers who look for fortune basing their precious hopes in coffers filled with gold, silver and jewels, sunk in the ships warehouses and staterooms of those legendary Spanish galleons that never reached port in their return maneuvers, and whose rest are dispersed in different reefs of the Great Caribbean Sea, and are counted in tens of hundreds sunken sites in the pristine crystal waters of the Dominican Republic.
Not all the sunked vessels load treasures, many returned with valuable products, but naturally perishables when they are submerged in the salty corrosive waters: wood, leathers, indigo, dies, tobacco, cotton, etc. Those colonizing ships that went towards America, took utilitarian objects: ceramics, glasswork, hardware tools, religious clothes, objects, paper and books, liquors, agriculture utensils, masonry, carpentry and mining.
Many of this were not found in their original route nor in its final destination, is common to find parts of this structures and equipments, tubes, anchors, kitchen utensils, tables, and mainly, artifacts of personal and religious use that belonged to their crew and passengers, sometimes rich passengers, who took with them their valuable possessions. 
