About 4 km South of Atlit peninsula, a series of partly submerged kurkar ridges and a headland create a basin that can provide some shelter from northwesterly and northerly winds. Underwater surveys and rescue excavations carried out by the CMS and the MAU exposed a submerged Pottery-Neolithic settlement (Neve-Yam, see above), anchors and assemblages associated with shipwrecks. An assemblage including 15 stone anchors of the Byblos type was attributed to the MB.

 A large LB cargo consisted of 83 loaf-shaped copper ingots, as well as a series of hematite weights in the shape of wheat grains, a socketed bronze adze with wooden remains, a bronze spearhead and several one-holed stone anchors. Another cargo attributed to the Hellenistic Period included several Ptolemaic bronze coins, cylindrical lead bands bearing incised Greek inscriptions, two bell-shaped sounding leads, pyramidal lead weights, round lead boxes with lids and a bronze figurine of a satyr. Dozens of pottery hand-grenades decorated with a scale design, dated to the 12-13 centuries CE, were collected in the anchorage area.