Shipwreck find could be the stuff of history

Treasure hunters have apparently found the 500-year-old remains of a naval expedition led by a colonizer who could have changed Florida's history, making it French-speaking at least for a while.

The big question is if the shipwreck is that of La Trinite, the 32-gun flagship of a fleet led by Jean Ribault, a French navigator who tried to establish a Protestant colony in the southeast United States under orders from King Charles IX.

They probably are, say authorities in Florida, the French government and independent archeologists.