:’) Dunno who said it was, but anyway, known Phoenician shipwrecks are ridiculously rare, despite the fact that the estimates for the number of Phoenician ships over the period of some few centuries of their heyday is fairly large. They were A) very good at plying the seas, and B) probably salvaged when they went down in fairly shallow water.
Those two things are true of ancient wrecks in general.
Robert Ballard, while looking for some modern submarine about ten years ago, found a couple of Phoenician wrecks in very deep waters off Israel. Like sailors today, ancient captains took the shortest routes, which could mean most favorable winds (sail west to east during part of the year, east to west another part of the year), but more generally meant as straight as possible to the destination. Coast-hugging was no more common then than it is now.
It says it in the article: "The find has been described as one of the most important of all archaeological discoveries."
I was curious too.
I have always laughed at archeologists who claimed that trade ships hugged coasts. They obviously neither own boats or know anyone who does.