Divers explore a mysterious underwater cemetery

These images were taken in an underwater cemetery built in homage to 40 monks who were thrown into the sea more than 400 years ago. The disturbing necropolis lies 20 meters deep in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in Fuencaliente, on the southern coast of the island of La Palma, Spain. Forty giant stone crosses represent each of the missionaries killed in 1570 when French pirates took control of their ship and threw them overboard. The crosses were thrown overboard 20 years ago to create the memorial, but many tourists swimming in the area are still unaware of what lies beneath Translated with www.DeepL.com/… (free version)

• 2020-11-03T23:34:49+00:00
• Duration: 01:25

• Underwater
• UnderTheSea
• drivers
• Cementery
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