Biblical shipwreck of St Paul ‘found’ as holy ship’s anchor unearthed
Experts claim they have found a biblical shipwreck as they discovered what they believe is the ship’s anchor.
The Biblical book Acts claims St Paul’s boat was shipwrecked off the coast of Malta. It is said that St Paul was travelling with Jesus Christ’s apostle Luke as they were on their way to Rome. St Paul was heading to the centre of the Roman Empire to issue an appeal to Caeser when the ship ran aground in a storm and was smashed to pieces by the waves. Holy lore recounts that the sailors desperate to survive the choppy waters cut away four of the ship’s anchors and left them at sea.
Biblical explorers BASE Institute have claimed that they
identified one of the anchors, and thus the real location of St Paul’s shipwreck.
BASE founder and Bible scholar Bob Cornuke travelled to Malta where he claims that he discovered the one surviving anchor.
He said the surviving anchor verifiably dates to the first century, and the location matches the description in Acts. Mr Cornuke claims that St Thomas’s Bay on the southeastern shore of Malta is the most likely location of St Paul’s shipwreck. And the anchor BASE claims on their website is the icing on the cake for the discovery, alleging that the four anchors were discovered by four divers in the 60s.
Mr Cornuke writes for BASE that only one of the anchors has survived, with the divers not knowing what they had discovered. Two were melted down to become diving weight belts, the third was lost, and the fourth is owned by the widow of one of the divers. He claims studies were carried out by the University of Malta which verified it is of Roman origin. BASE also claims other factors about St Thomas’s bay match up with the story of St Paul. Geography of the area matches up with descriptions of a sandy beach. It also has a large projecting reef which matches the Biblical wording of where “two seas meet”.
Depth of the water also matches with the actnchors recorded in Acts, and along a coastline which would have been used by ancient ships. Acts 27:28 says the water was 90ft deep, which Mr Cornuke claims exactly matches where the anchors were found.