WWII shipwreck with over 1000 Allied POWs found in South China Sea
TL;DR
A team of explorers has discovered the wreck of the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia's largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives. The wreck was located at a depth of over 4000 meters using an autonomous underwater vehicle. The Silentworld Foundation, a not-for-profit dedicated to maritime archaeology and history, took part in the mission together with Dutch deep-sea survey specialists Fugro and Australia's Defense Department.
- Explorers find WWII ship sunk with over 1000 Allied POWs The Associated Press
- World War II shipwreck of SS Montevideo Maru, which sank with over 1,000 POWs, found in South China Sea CNN
- Montevideo Maru: Australia finds wreck of Japanese WW2 disaster ship BBC
- Explorers find WWII wreck on which nearly 1,000 Australians died Al Jazeera English
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