The Bom Jesus (1553) located in the desert..... in Namibia. One of the most significant shipwreck finds of recent times was made in an ostensibly unlikely place: a southwest African desert. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus), a Portuguese ship, set sail for India from Lisbon on 7 March, 1533, when it got caught up in a devastating storm. https://www.indy100.com/media-library/left-a-debeers-mine-worker-with-some-of-the-coins-found-during-the-bom-jesus-excavation-right-u2013-a-cannon-and-more-gold-co.jpg?id=52814501&width=800&quality=85 https://www.indy100.com/media-library/a-gold-coin-taken-from-the-bom-jesus-shipwreck.webp?id=52814507&width=800&height=533&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C146%2C0 https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/bom-jesus-shipwreck-namibia-desert