sunken treasure
Drowned ship's gold
Sunken treasure is valuables lost beneath the water, typically from shipwrecks—gold coins, jewelry, cargo that went down with vessels centuries ago.
The phrase evokes romance and adventure: divers searching for sunken treasure, tales of sunken treasure in the Caribbean.
Figuratively, anything valuable that's been lost or hidden away: The archive was sunken treasure for researchers.
- Davy Jones' lockerOcean floor for shipwrecks
- watery graveDeath by drowning
- sonarUnderwater detection by echoes
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
ocean floor · deep sea · shipwreck · doubloons · wreckage · ship's hold · pieces of eight · gold coins · gold · ghost ships · Spanish Main · diving suit · silver · salvage operation · salvage rights · pirate ship · submersible · jewels
- hidden treasureburied gold, pirate loot, sunken chest, gold coins, gold bars
- salvagesalvage, salvage operations, salvage operation, salvor, marine salvage
- underwaterunderwater, submerged, immersed, sea bed, seabed
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- Caribbean Piracypirate, buccaneer, privateer, corsair, Port Royal
- Caribbean piratespirates, buccaneers, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, privateers