2,000 feet isn't that deep in the overall scheme of things. Don't they have suits that allow humans to dive that deep?

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Claimed by Spain in 3, 2, 1...

Hah! They lost it, fair and square...

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The 62-gun, three-masted galleon, went down on June 8, 1708, with 600 people on board during a battle with British ships in the War of Spanish Succession.

I still have Mike Purcell's phone number from when I worked with him on the R&D and first operational deployment of the REMUS vehicles.
It would be very difficult to do any salvage work at that depth without any kind of surface vessel presence nearby. (untethered AUV technology just isn't there yet) Deepwater ROV's are dirt cheap to hire right now. We'd just need a stealth ship to deploy one from.