The Excavation Begins!
Dr. Dieter Noli from the Southern Africa Institute of Maritime Archaeological Research already had the notion of a possible shipwreck deeply engrained in his mind. He was so sure of a shipwreck being somewhere out there, that he had told miners for the past dozen years of the possibility and to keep an eye out. After many years of speculation and waiting, he was finally able to see his suspicions become correct about the Portuguese ship that set sail in 1533 and never made it to its destination.