Fleet was carrying gold, silver, pearls, diamonds, emeralds and other jewels when the 11 Spanish ships sank in a hurricane that year.

The shipwreck gave Florida's Treasure Coast its name. Schmitt spoke to "CBS Mornings" in July 2015 after his family's business, Booty Salvage, helped find the coins while searching in shallow ...

The Treasure Coast of Florida, including Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin counties, is named after the 1715 shipwreck of a Spanish treasure fleet. Originally home to the Ais and Jaega tribes ...

Thirty-seven gold coins that were taken by salvagers from a shipwreck nearly 310 years old off Florida’s coast have been ...

The combined 59 square miles is about half the size of Port St. Lucie, the biggest city on the Treasure Coast and the sixth-largest in Florida, with about 245,000 residents, according to the U.S ...