We're all familiar with the phrase,"the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria." Now comes news that one of those three ships famously on Christopher Columbus' first voyage to The New World, the Santa Maria, has been found by underwater archaeologists off the northern coast of Haiti (where it drifted and wrecked -with Columbus aboard- in almost slapstick fashion, just weeks after making initial landfall in the Bahamas).
As an aside, "La Nina" and "La Pinta" were not actually those ships' real names. They were nicknames. "La Pinta" means "the painted" in Spanish, and at the time was apparently sailor slang for "prostitute."
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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