Bob Cornuke, the evangelical Indiana Jones, former SWAT-team member and crime-scene investigator for the Costa Mesa Police Department, California, now becoming hugely popular for his biblical archaeology, says St Paul’s boat was wrecked off a reef along the southern shore of Malta, rather than in a bay on the northern shore.

He also thinks the Ark of the Covenant does exist and might be in the Ethiopian highlands.

In fact, next week Cornuke will be off on an expedition to Ethiopia, his tenth trip to the area.