“proves that Late Bronze Age mariners could navigate the seas without a line of sight to the shore”
But doesn’t it really prove that late bronze age mariners could ‘sink’ in the seas without a line of sight to the shore?
They must have forgotten the beeswax to stuff in their ears.
They obviously heard the song of the Sirens who lured them to the rocks sinking their ship and death.
They ended up in Davey Jones Locker. ARRR