The wreck was found at Kibbutz Maagan Mikhael, about 30 km south of Haifa, some 70 meters offshore, at a depth of 1.5 m, and under 1.5 m of sand. The ship was a 2400- year-old merchantman, 14 m in length and 4 m beam. A substantial portion of the wooden hull structure has survived in a remarkable state of preservation.
Among the artifacts found aboard were 70 items of ceramic ware, ropes, a lead ingot, a set of carpenter's tools, 12 tons of rocks, mainly blueschist, and a perfectly preserved one-armed wooden anchor, with ropes still attached.

Elisha Linder spent much of his career

scouring the Israel northern coastline in the hopes of uncovering an ancient trading ship. So it was with no small amount of well-appreciated irony that when he finally achieved his dream over 35 years later, it was literally in the own backyard of his kibbutz.

The ship

from the time of the construction of the Second Temple, is one of the most complete ancient ships ever recovered from the sea.