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The Shipwreck That Still Shares its Bounty

1/29/2019 | 3m 38s

A shipwreck shares it's beeswax bounty 300 years later.

A Spanish galleon from Manila went down in a storm off the Oregon coast 327 years ago. It was carrying a cargo of beeswax for the Spanish colonies, and that beeswax is still being found on beaches today.

01/29/2019

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Mossback's Northwest is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS

Mossback's Northwest

The Shipwreck That Still Shares its Bounty

1/29/2019 | 3m 38s

A Spanish galleon from Manila went down in a storm off the Oregon coast 327 years ago. It was carrying a cargo of beeswax for the Spanish colonies, and that beeswax is still being found on beaches today.

01/29/2019

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