WWII shipwreck discovered with 1,000+ Allied POWs onboard.
A team of explorers has found the sunken Japanese ship, Montevideo Maru, which 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 after a 12-day search at a depth of over 4000 meters off Luzon island in the South China Sea. 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.
