In its hold were a load of carefully calibrated iron ballasts that sailing ships required in order to effectively transport on the open ocean the shifting weight of hundreds of individual captive humans.

[6] In early December, at the port on the Island of Mozambique, the ship's crew loaded their human cargo and got under way.

[3][7] Local divers found the wreck off of Clifton beach in the 1980s but misidentified it as a Dutch merchant ship.

Three divers from South Africa, the United States, and Mozambique scattered soil from the slaves' homeland in the surf not far from the wreck.

Artifacts from the dive site were displayed at the South Africa's Iziko Museum's Slave Lodge in June 2015, and undergo conservation efforts there, with additional research and recovery continuing.

[9][10] Some artifacts were loaned for display at the United States' African American History Museum, when it opened in 2016.