For the last three years Sydney Wignall, mountaineer turned archaeologist, has been diving on Armada wrecks off the coast of Ireland and Fair Isle. Through the largest underwater search ever attempted, he has found the wreck of one of the flagships, the Santa Maria de la Rosa. Besides many small finds, for the first time actual physical remains of one of the great ships that so seriously threatened England in 1588 has been surveyed and recorded. Perhaps his most important discovery was one particular cannon ball, because locked inside its rusty exterior may lie the real reason why the great Armada failed.
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