The ship was identified as a Portuguese nau, a type of trading vessel dating from the 16th century.
Records from fisheries and research vessels dating from the 1970s to 2005 have revealed a dramatic nosedive in great shark populations.
On Thursday Christie's will offer about 50 monochrome Chinese vessels dating to the third century B.C.
Home to the Museum of Perfume, the space holds nearly 5,000 essence and perfume vessels dating from ancient Egypt to the present day.
Assembled largely from the museum's own significant collection by Ulysses Grant Dietz, curator of the department of decorative arts, the show displays vessels dating from the late 1930's to the present by 138 potters from the United States (including American Indians), Europe, Asia and Africa.
The trading vessels, dating from the first century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., are among the deepest wrecks discovered in the Mediterranean in recent years, the researchers said.
The collection spans the 8th to 20th centuries, but in the nonpublic areas there are pre-Islamic works, such as glass vessels, dating from the 2nd century A.D. Depicting life in villages, cities and royal courts, the artifacts that are on view -- furnishings, antique tiles, commissioned mosaics, metalwork and ceramics -- come from Europe, South and Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Most of these vessels date from before 50 B.C., while later styles are absent despite being common in other parts of Britain, indicating the wine trade seems to have declined at about the time Caesar began his Gaulish campaigns.
Its lead essay, by a young scholar, Wang Tu, is a "biography" of the show's archaic bronze wine vessel that dates back 3,000 years.
The Gorilla Rep is staging the 121-year-old operetta neither in an opera house nor a theater but aboard a real ship -- the Peking, a four-masted commercial sailing vessel that dates back to 1911 and is permanently docked at the South Street Seaport Museum.
