About the owner of the Santa Maria, Juan de la Cosa.

The owner of the Santa Maria was Juan de la Cosa, the same man who made (or compiled) the famous chart of the New World in 1500.  He sailed again with Columbus on the second voyage, made an expedition to South America with Alone Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci (1499); and was the pilot for Rodrigo de Bastidas in 1500-1501 (when Vasco Nunez de Balboa was aboard and the coast between Cartagena, Columbia, and Porto Belo Panama, was first explored).  In 1504 he returned to Santo Domingo to serve as Ojeda's lietenant in the colonization of what is now Columbia (called Nueva Andalucia).  In 1509, in a fight with the Carib, Juan de la Cosa died from a poisoned arrow.