64 of the 104 crew were saved and the rest were stranded for months.

“Some of them are found behind dunes, far onshore from the sea,” said Jan Friede, a longtime ranger at Skeleton Coast National Park, who photographed and documented 112 wrecks during his six-year tenure as a park ranger.

He told CNN: “Even if you survived the wreck you were probably doomed. You struggle ashore, overjoyed that you’ve been saved, and then realise that you landed in a desert and probably should have gone down with the ship.”

Locals have also been warned against surfing against the current, as one person told the outlet: “You don’t want to swim out too far. The current will take you 200 kilometers out.”

“Surfing this high-energy coastline, one of the least crowded on the planet always includes sharing waves with marine mammals,” added longboarder Rod Braby, former head of the Namibian Surfing Association.

“Respect the locals (Cape fur seals and dolphins) and you will be accepted in the line ups of the best waves on the Skeleton Coast.

“Marine mammals know the waves far more intimately than us.”

It’s safe to say that Skeleton Coast is probably not the shout for a nice getaway this summer.

That being said, surely anything’s got to be better than the UK weather though.