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IN a small office tucked away behind Capilano
5 Mall, a few 300- -year-old pieces of North ..
| American history rest. 8
The silver dises, bars and coins displayed by West Vancouver: .
Measure hunter Glenn Costello have! been plucked fron the
~~ turquoise waters.off Cuba’s north coast,

o be “. Costello is a director and largest shareholder ofa firm called
‘Terratest Industries, | (which is mining old wrecks win the?”
Caribbean country’s waters, oe

~The treasure he holds in his hands comes from the wreck of,
; » the; Spanish galleon Nuestra“ Senora de Las Mercedes, which is’. *
" strewa across a square kilometre of the sea’s bottom. so
-$o far, Tereawest and, its partner, Cuba's armed forces min
istry, have discovered a sword, silver artifacts, ‘opal and aquama- «:-
aérine gemstones and‘ more ethan 580 silver coins, dises and bars
yon the wreck.

: starting ti to ‘get back our investment,” Costello !

he, two-year search fortreasure tias gone slower

- than’ expected at first but‘is now picking up... | ee

Costello. said the silver coins, worth approximately’ $800, 7
made in Potosi; in. what is now known _as Bolivia,
“Costello said “Terrawest still’ has. two: areas. to

Cuba's’ coast. /He ‘expects the project to take lip to eight- more:

years to. dhe ils but that Neate a on the success sof the € pra

west Vancouver’ 3 s Glenn Costello has unearth \d Cuba’ A silver fining during his company’ ‘3 hunt for sunken
treasure off the aby nia island's coast. Costello! who also:owns Canpac Diving in North Vancouver, Says sil-
team are 300 years ‘old and each w rth appro imately

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