The Spanish culture ministry has begun an inventory of shipwrecks in the Americas, identifying 681 vessels that sank between 1492 and 1898

US

US Atlantic

coast

153

Old Florida*

1

150

Atlantic Ocean

2

Miami

Dominican

Republic

and Haiti

3

Cuba

249

63

4

Caribbean Sea

66

Panama

1,000 km

1,000 miles

Biggest losses of life

1. 1563 Five ships and 1,250 lives lost off Bermuda

 

2. 1715 11 ships and more than 1,000 lives lost off Cape Canaveral and Fort Pierce

 

3. 1733 15 ships and more than 1,000 lives lost in the Florida Keys

 

4. 1724 Conde de Tolosa hit by a hurricane; 600 lives lost

US Atlantic

coast

153

US

1563 Five ships and 1,250 lives lost off Bermuda

Old Florida*

150

1715 11 ships and more than 1,000 lives lost off Cape Canaveral

and Fort Pierce

Miami

Atlantic Ocean

1733 15 ships and more than 1,000 lives lost in the Florida Keys

Cuba

249

Dominican Republic

and Haiti

63

Caribbean Sea

Panama

1724 Conde de Tolosa hit by a hurricane; 600 lives lost

66

500 km

500 miles