Roger Dooley\u2019s quest to find the San Jos\u00e9\u2014the 18th-century Spanish treasure galleon that would come to be called \u201cthe Holy Grail of Shipwrecks\u201d\u2014began in Seville, on a torrid morning in July 1984.<\/p>\n
Tall and wiry, with deep-set eyes and a conquistador beard, the 39-year-old maritime archaeologist looked like a young Don Quixote and was imbued with a similar sense of purpose. Dooley, an American-born resident of Havana, was in Seville on Cuban government business. He was the chief archaeologist for a state entity called Carisub, formed on orders from President Fidel Castro to track down the many historic ships thought to have wrecked against the island\u2019s treacherous shores over the centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Dooley\u2019s quest to find the San Jos\u00e9\u2014the 18th-century Spanish treasure galleon that would come to be called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[73878,38362,73879,8179,9303,73880,73881,73882,73883,73884,73885,52659,21896,73886,73887,73888,73889,61526,88,90,89,73890,73891,73892],"class_list":["post-148990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-carisub","tag-cartagena-de-indias","tag-charles-wager","tag-colombia","tag-cuba","tag-don-quixote","tag-expedition","tag-felipe-v","tag-fidel-castro","tag-florentino-ariza","tag-gabriel-garca-mrquez","tag-havana","tag-jamaica","tag-julian-sancton","tag-love-in-the-time-of-cholera","tag-neptunes-fortune","tag-nuestra-seora-de-las-mercedes","tag-roger-dooley","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-seville","tag-spanish-galleon","tag-the-war-of-spanish-succession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}