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[The US Government station housed] a crew whose job was to watch for shipwrecks and rescue survivors.
Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).
Another attraction for members of the wet set is being able to investigate shipwrecks on the ocean bottom — well over 100 vessels are known to have sunk hereabouts since the days of the Spanish galleons.
You will also find displays of diving equipment used over the centuries to explore the shipwrecks that can be found all around the treacherous reefs off the coast here.
In the 19th century, Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours became the “Sailors’ Chapel,” to which survivors of shipwrecks brought model ships they had carved as offerings of thanksgiving.