In 1554 a fleet of Spanish ships, laden with treasures from the New World departed from Vera Cruz in Mexico, bound for Havana.
Billy Kenon, a local salvage master teamed up with the Znika brothers f.
Treasure hunters armed with metal detectors began finding Spanish coins on Padre Island in the 1960s.
For reasons yet unknown, at least three of the vessels were wrecked on the coast of present-day Texas at Padre Island, not far north of the Rio Grande where their remains languished for centuries.
In 1554 a fleet of Spanish ships, laden with treasures from the New World departed from Vera Cruz in Mexico, bound for Havana