History Hunters highly recommends to students of history and archaeology the 7 April issue of The New Yorker. John Colapinto presents a brilliant exposition on Odyssey Marine, based on months of original research - and not without a little help from History Hunters.

Much is happening this week in the saga of Odyssey Marine.

7 May: the company's AGM.

8 May: Spain makes an official statement.

9 May: court interrogatory answers from Spain are due.

Will the company make yet another grand announcement of finding treasure?

Will Spain finally exchange its kid gloves for something more combative?

The company must be running short of cash again, so something has to give.

Some of our content on Odyssey Marine:

The Spanish Frigate

Nuestra Se�ora de Mercedes de las Animas

and the Soul of the Monroe Doctrine

Here is marvellous piece, researched and written by one of our esteemed members. An extract:

Carlos Maria Alvear, one of the more complex figures in the history of Latin America�s early republics, perhaps walked Mercedes' weather deck and shared an unknowing last embrace with his mother and sisters some pleasant pre-war moment before the coast of Portugal and the heights of Montefijo blinked over the horizon that October morning in 1804. In an instant, Carlos Maria Alvear�s world was transformed. His experience is a parable of how the forces of history move through and around both individuals and societies at large. Nuestra Se�ora de Mercedes de las Animas represents a key link to recovering and understanding humanity�s collective past. The vessel and her wreck sites still have much to teach, both as cultural artifact and as cultural heritage.

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General Carlos Maria Alvear (lived 1789 to 1852), Minister Plenipotentiary for the Republic of Buenos Aires