Aye, matey, there still be gold there Reading about old shipwrecks reminds one of how brave, or crazy, take your pick, sailors were back in the, say, late 1400s when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, all the way through the 1700s, when sailing vessels were so flimsy, like timber boxes, so prone to sinking in high winds and high waves.In that time period, there was still no way to gauge the longitude. No weather forecasts were available on the smart phone. A category 5 hurricane could be right over the horizon, and you might have a feel that something bad ...