[1] The kibbutz was established in June 1948 by a group of idealistic Zionists who settled in the Palestinian village of al-Tantura a few weeks after the previous residents were expelled after a massacre by Jewish forces.

[2] The residents had wished to establish the kibbutz as a fishing village on El Burj, the site of ancient Dor, but gave up after a long fight with the Israeli Department of Antiquities.

[2] Today, according to a report in the newspaper Haaretz, a car park for the beaches of Nahsholim and neighboring Dor contains a mass grave from the 1948 Tantura massacre.

In 2015, archaeologists examining remains of a shipwreck discovered in 1976 off Dor Beach, near Zichron Yaakov, announced that it was probably a ship sent by Rothschild with supplies for the bottle factory.

[5] Also exhibited in the museum are a large assortment of anchors, jars and navigational tools retrieved by the center's diving team.