allowing Namibia to keep the lot.” Now, more than 15 years since the historic find was made, the Bom Jesus remains the oldest and most valuable shipwreck ever discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It is by far the oldest shipwreck ever found on the coast of ... Only one of these went down anywhere near Namibia: theBom Jesus, which sailed in 1533 and was "lost on the turn of the Cape of ...