Watch as the replica of Columbus’s Santa Maria sinks (video)
Noted violent slaver, spreader of disease, and forced conversions to Christianity, Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was reproduced as a replica in 1987. It sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta last Friday.
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