 It was exposed again in November 2010, three years after its previous appearance.In April 2011 the wreck again became visible, this time to the same degree that it had been in 1984.Stephen Haller, the park historian for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area of the National Park Service, says that "King Philip" is the best-preserved wreck of a wooden ship in the San Francisco Bay area, which has a total of approximately 200 old shipwrecks.