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Tom Metcalfe

'It is a treasure': Wreck off Kenyan coast may be from Vasco da Gama's final voyage

Two scuba divers swim to a shipwreck.

A wreck off the coast of Kenya may have been a ship from one of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages into the Indian Ocean 500 years ago, archaeologists say.

The remains of the vessel, which were discovered near the Kenyan town of Malindi in 2013, are among eight known Portuguese shipwrecks from this period in the area. Researchers think it may be the São Jorge, which sank in 1524, although the identification is not certain.

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