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 On Namibia’s National West Coast Tourist Recreation Area lies Skeleton Coast, a stretch of beach that goes all the way up to the Kunene River at the Namibia-Angola border. Since 1971 Skeleton Coast was protected as the Skeleton National Park. You can only access the southern part of the park if you have a permit, while the northern part can only be visited through a private safari company. Skeleton Coast is the world’s largest ship graveyard. Due to the violent surf, wild storms, and dense fog in the area, many ships usually crash along the coastline. Those who managed to survive the shipwreck and swim through the violent waves to reach the coast still never survived because of the hostile, lifeless 300-km wide desert.