The wreck of The Nicobar
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The Nicobar was a Danish ship. It was outbound to India with a load of Swedish copper plate money. Demonetized in 1777, these plates were being shipped to India for manufacture into Danish Indian coinage. The ship went down off Quoin Point in 1783. Only 11 people survived.
In 1987 two young Gansbaai residents were looking over the side of their boat and they spotted something interesting on the ocean floor. They dived down and found a canon and a box of coins. They soon realized they had found the wreck of the Nicobar. The salvage operation took 4 months and yielded the biggest haul of copper plate money in the world.
