https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The captain of a large Singaporean cargo ship was found drifting at sea off the coast of southern Spain clinging to a life buoy in a "very serious state," police said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20170517/police-find-singapore-ship-captain-drifting-at-sea-off-southern-spain Wed, 17 May 2017 11:00:54 +0200 police-find-singapore-ship-captain-drifting-at-sea-off-southern-spain Four people who survived 10 days adrift in the South China Sea subsisted on raw fish and water droplets as a series ofrescue opportunities slipped agonisingly by, one of the survivors said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160517/no-more-sashimi-castaways-survival-ordeal-fish-borneo Tue, 17 May 2016 10:42:17 +0200 no-more-sashimi-castaways-survival-ordeal-fish-borneo Hope had been fading for the couple since officials announced their boat had sunk in waters off the Philippines. https://www.thelocal.es/20160512/spanish-couple-missing-off-borneo-found-alive Thu, 12 May 2016 12:42:30 +0200 spanish-couple-missing-off-borneo-found-alive A missing Malaysian boat with three foreigners aboard that disappeared in waters near the Philippines, which has seen a spate of kidnappings, is believed to have sunk, an official said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160509/hope-fades-for-spanish-sailing-couple-missing-in-malaysia Mon, 09 May 2016 14:05:19 +0200 hope-fades-for-spanish-sailing-couple-missing-in-malaysia Colombia says it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon, the San Jose, laden with gold, silver and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean. https://www.thelocal.es/20151206/colombia-finds-spanish-treasure-galleon-ending-300-year-mystery Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:49:34 +0100 colombia-finds-spanish-treasure-galleon-ending-300-year-mystery Spain's coastguard has called off the search for 35 migrants missing at sea after their boat was shipwrecked between Spain and Morocco. https://www.thelocal.es/20151031/spanish-coast-guard-abandons-search-for-35-missing-refugees Sat, 31 Oct 2015 13:29:13 +0100 spanish-coast-guard-abandons-search-for-35-missing-refugees An extraordinary collection of shipwrecked 17th and 18th century Spanish treasure discovered off the coast of Florida has sold in New York for about $2 million (€1.83 million). https://www.thelocal.es/20150807/spanish-treasure-goes-under-the-hammer Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:34:02 +0200 spanish-treasure-goes-under-the-hammer A Florida family of treasurehunters have made their third discovery in three years, this time finding Spanish gold worth more than $1million from a 300-year-old wreck. https://www.thelocal.es/20150728/treasurehunts-find-1m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:50:53 +0200 treasurehunts-find-1m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon Six would-be migrants have died and four are missing after their boat ran into trouble off the coast of the north-African Spanish enclave of Melilla. https://www.thelocal.es/20150130/at-least-six-dead-in-shipwreck-off-melilla Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:03:00 +0100 at-least-six-dead-in-shipwreck-off-melilla Indonesian authorities are continuing to search for two Spanish citizens, including a 43-year-old from Seville, the only people still missing after a tourist boat carrying 25 people in the country's waters sank on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140822/indonesia-step Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:53:00 +0200 indonesia-step Indonesian authorities reported on Monday that two Spanish citizens are the only people still missing after a tourist boat carrying 25 people in Indonesian waters sank on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140818/two-spaniards-missing-after-indonesia-shipwreck Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:50:00 +0200 two-spaniards-missing-after-indonesia-shipwreck A family of treasure hunters in Florida say they found a golden pyx - a eucharist case - from a shipwrecked 16th century Spanish galleon, local media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140730/treasure Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:57:00 +0200 treasure