Wagers prize had slipped his grasp, and its treasure now gilded the seabed at unknowable depths, along with the bodies of Casa Alegre and almost 600 of his men. He flew to Seville, Spain, to the General Archive of the Indies, a notoriously labyrinthine trove of records dating to the beginning of the Spanish Empire. Today, that would be equivalent to roughly $300,000,000. [CDATA[// >