Why Haven't We Found Christopher Columbus's Ships?
By Kristin Romey
PUBLISHED October 6, 2017
This year marks the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first Transatlantic expedition, a voyage that the Italian explorer expected would take him to Asia. Instead, his crew sighted land in the Caribbean on October 12, 1492, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to the European colonization of the New World.
While generations of school children have sung of the adventures of the "Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria too," the remains of Columbus' history-making First Fleet—as well as those of his subsequent three expeditions—remain undiscovered, despite decades of dedicated searching by archaeologists and shipwreck hunters alike.
Here are some of the reasons why finding the remains of the First Fleet is so difficult:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/columbus-nina-pinta-santa-maria-shipwreck-archaeology/
