It’s a story that could equal any Indiana Jones script. Except that it’s true. In 1699, the French frigate Maurepas sinks off the coast of an uninhabited part of Panama, taking with it a load full of gold, silver and jewels gifted from Charles II of Spain to King Louis XIV of France. The treasure was payment to fight their common British enemy. After the vessel sinks, the captain and crew try to find their haul, to no success. For centuries, the wreck becomes the stuff of legends, with only the remote indigenous Guna Yala tribe privy to its exact location. They have every intention to keep it hidden. More than 300 years later, the Guna Yala in Panama’s San Blas archipelago have decided to reveal the whereabouts of the wreck. But here’s the Indiana Jones twist. In 2011, Ocean X divers Peter Lindberg and Dennis Åberg uncovered what is now known..
