FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Question
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The Pinta accidentally crashed into it.
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A small leak slowly sank it to the bottom of the ocean.
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It stuck a coral reef which punched holes into it.
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It was shot at by pirates.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the Santa Maria sink? The Pinta accidentally crashed into it. A small leak caused by colliding with a whale slowly sank it to the bottom of the ocean. It stuck a coral reef which punched holes into it.
Detailed explanation-2: -That discovery led to a project with National Geographic. The Santa Maria sank after hitting reefs off the Haitian coast around Christmas of 1492, months after arriving from Spain. It is believed that Columbus ordered some of the ship’s timbers stripped from the wreck in order to build a fort on land near the shore.
Detailed explanation-3: -The leader of an undersea expedition says a pile of wreckage on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, off the north coast of Haiti, may well mark the spot where Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, sank in 1492.
Detailed explanation-4: -On Christmas Day of 1492 Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, ran aground off the northern coast of Haiti.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Santa Maria, Columbus’s flagship, was a larger, heavier cargo ship. For 35 days, Columbus and his crew of 86 Spanish sailors sailed westward searching for a passage to China and India.