50-year-old maritime mystery solved with discovery of lost shipwreck.

The M.V. Blythe Star, a ship that sank 50 years ago off the coast of Tasmania, has been discovered by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The shipwreck had been a decades-long mystery, and the families of the crew wanted answers as the 50th anniversary of its disappearance approached. The ship sank so quickly that no distress signal was sent, and the crew used an inflatable life raft to survive. After nine days at sea and drifting roughly 250 miles, the men came ashore at Deep Glen Bay. Two more crew members died shortly after making it ashore, possibly from hypothermia or exhaustion.