"Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 May 2018 10:02 p.m. PST |
…. vanishing in Indonesia? "Seventy five years ago this month, Australia, the UK, US and the Netherlands suffered a series of disastrous naval defeats against Japan in the narrow straits and seas around Indonesia. The warship wrecks in the Java Sea and the Sunda Strait are the final resting place for thousands of Allied sailors. The sites are considered war graves by survivors and their descendants, following a long maritime tradition of respecting human remains on shipwrecks. So it was with shock and deep disappointment that an international team surveying the Java Sea wrecks in November 2016 found that at least four Dutch and British shipwrecks – and one American submarine whose entire crew was captured alive – had simply vanished from the seabed some 70 metres below…."
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What a shame!
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| shthar | 08 May 2018 12:08 a.m. PST |
They didn't really care too much for the dutch or the british when they were colonies. They care even less about em now. |
| Ssendam | 08 May 2018 1:18 a.m. PST |
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| Major General Stanley | 08 May 2018 3:22 a.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 08 May 2018 4:28 a.m. PST |
Why? Because the Chinese pay good money for per atomic age Metals. They are nothing but Ghouls, Who should have terrible accidents happen to their expansive salvage boats. |
| Tango01 | 08 May 2018 11:40 a.m. PST |
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| bsrlee | 08 May 2018 3:28 p.m. PST |
The looters are also wrecking the local fishing because they just rip open the mostly full fuel tanks and let the contents loose, killing or polluting local fish stocks. And 'amazingly' local authorities are never able to catch the culprits. |
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