Tall tale of epic shipwreck of deep fake?

[em2nought]

My sister took me to the theatre to see "The Deep" when I was thirteen, and I've been hooked on treasure, sharks, and wet t-shirts ever since. I just finished watching this artist's documentary or mockumentary??? If it's fake it sure had me fooled. Worth watching I think. I even like the idea of what's true and what's not in the world we live in now.



https://whitewall.art/art/ten-years-...-unbelievable/

Imagine finding a shipwreck off the coast of East Africa. The vessel, once belonging to Cif Amotan II and full of over 100 treasures, objects, and artifacts, has remained submerged underwater for more than two thousand years. Legend has it that Amotan was a freed slave from Antioch who lived in the mid-first and early-second centuries CE. As a free man, he gathered a great fortune and built a collection of art from the ancient world. In the hopes of creating a museum, his ship the Apistos (meaning “Unbelievable” in Koine Greek) set sail filled with his collection, ultimately meeting its demise at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

It was found there in 2008, or so we’re told in Damien Hirst’s exhibition “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” currently on view at both the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana in Venice, curated by Elena Geuna.