In 1970, a scholar of Spanish colonial history stumbled upon documents which he suspected were related to the incident and suggested a site off the coast of Florida in the United States. Thus did 16 years of searching begin.
一九七○年，一位研究西班亞殖民史的專家，無意間找到疑似當年的船難文件，以及可能在美國佛羅里達州外海的沉沒地點，一串長達十六年的尋寶歷程於焉開始。