A sunken ship from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the largest Chinese wreck discovered from that period, was hauled from its watery grave at the end of December, 2007. The salvage of the shipwrech is deemed as a rare historical retrieval.

The 30-m-long vessel went down with 80,000 cultural relics aboard about 60 km west of Hailing Island near Yangjiang more than eight centuries ago. Its precious relics include ceramics, gold and jewel exports,

Named the Nanhai No. 1 or "South China Sea No. 1" by archaeologists, the ship was discovered in 1987 off the coast of Guangdong Province, buried in two metres (6.5 feet) of silt at a depth of 30 metres. Even since then, archaeologists have hauled some precious relics from underneath the sea.

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