Diving into a submerged compartment inside the galleon, I swam through an underwater passage to reach the front of the ship. After consulting a quick video guide to locate a hidden climbable wall past dead Spanish soldiers, I freed a stuck winch on the foremast, and then swinged to the boom out of reach.
Pondering Lara's observation about a potential underwater route toward the front of the vessel, I leapt back off the wooden hull of the massive Spanish galleon into the open water.
Scouting around the submerged exterior, I couldn't immediately spot a way through, prompting me to haul myself back up onto the deck for a better vantage point.
I noticed a pool of stagnant water collecting right in the central hold of the ship. Realizing this was the opening Lara had hinted at, I dove straight in and found a flooded internal corridor.
A drowned entryway that allowed me to swim beneath the debris directly into the forward section of the ship.
Resurfacing inside the forward compartment, I immediately ran into a tall, sheer wall with a wide gap running underneath it. I found myself completely stuck with no obvious ledge to grab.
Knowing this had to be the intended path forward, I checked a YouTube walkthrough to spot the solution, uncovering a subtle, climbable surface tucked away on the opposite side of the chamber.
Scaling the wall, I hauled myself onto an upper deck littered with the preserved, skeletal remains of fallen Spanish soldiers.
Ignoring the grim scenery, I approached the ship's massive boom, needing to rotate it into position to reach a supply crate.
Attempting to turn the mechanism, the heavy timber refused to budge, completely jammed by age and sea rot.
Realizing I needed to find a way to free the rig from the outside, I squeezed through a breach in the hull. Using my grappling axe to catch a overhead anchor point and swung out of the galleon.
Lara noted that a secondary winch on the foremast needed to be manually released to free the boom. Knowing the distance, I made a blind, risky leap across the open air, and caught the wooden beam at the very last second.
Reaching the foremast winch, I cranked the rusted gear to release the tension, causing the boom to snap loose, only for it to swing far out of reach across the wreckage.
With the main path clear but suspended in mid-air, I began searching for a route to climb higher up the mast.
