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Ditto! The abyssal plains of the Med, and the areas west of Portugal, Spain, France, and the British Isles (at the very least) probably have a good number of ancient wrecks still loaded for trade. I’d LOVE to take part in any of these deep-sea discoveries, particularly in search of the really big Roman tubs; the Romans transported obelisks from Egypt, quite a number of them in fact, as well as one-piece stone columns quarried in Mons Claudianus (eastern desert of Egypt) weighing about 200 tons each, and obviously moved them by sea. Caligula’s pleasure barge was discovered in pre-WWII Italy, on some former inland lake, and it displaced over 200 tons (and then got destroyed during the war, unfortunately). It would take a vessel probably displacing 300 to 400 tons to safely transport some of those cargoes. My guess is, there is one or more of those setting down there, waiting to be found. It’ll be fantastic if it happens.