The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University archaeologists Dr. Ruud Stelten and Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde analyzed ship logs, contemporary cartographic and navigational knowledge and weather patterns at the time in a bid to understand how the ship went down.