Photo of the Day 387

Diver and Shipwreck, South China Sea, Philippines, 1994

Photograph by Emory Kristof

A diver measures the sunken remains of the San Diego in the South China Sea off the western Philippines. The 115-foot (35-meter) Spanish galleon went to the bottom with a rich cargo and most of its 450 men in December 1600 following a botched attempt to commandeer a Dutch pirate ship.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "San Diego: An Account of Adventure, Deceit, and Intrigue," July 1994, National Geographic magazine)