Giles Richardson is a maritime archaeologist at the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on the retirement and disposal of the last generation of sailing warships in the nineteenth century Royal Navy. Alexandra Sofroniew is a lecturer in Classical Archaeology at St John's College, Oxford and is currently curating an exhibition telling the history of Sicily through underwater archaeology.

Who owns the wreckage of the San José, and what should be done with it?

High drama under the high seas and issues of ownership and patrimony off the Colombian coast