This is the only wreck site where permission is required to dive in WA with protected zone 500m around wreck. (Hazardous conditions apply – only few days per year where diving is possible)
Built:
1701 by VOC in Zeeland probably Vlissingen, Netherlands
Location:
On reef at base of cliffs, 62km north of Murchison River
Sinking:
En route from Wielingen to Batavia with approx 200 passengers and crew, a rich cargo including 248,000 silver coins and general cargo. Hit reef and cliff-face, crew and passengers believed to have survived.