"Esmeralda" foundered in 1503 while being captained by Vicente Sodré, maternal uncle of Vasco da Gama, and was discovered in 1998.Although little remained of the vessel itself due to the shallow waters in which it sank, an excavation from 2013 to 2015 discovered 2,800 artifacts including an extremely rare índio silver coin minted for trade with India, a dozen gold coins, a copper alloy ship's bell, stone cannonballs, and part of what is believed to be an astrolabe.