A team set out on an expedition to find the wreck in the South China Sea, northwest of Luzon, on April 6 and discovered it after 12 days, with help from state-of-the-art technology including an autonomous underwater vehicle. The group of maritime archaeologists, conservators, operations and research specialists, and ex-naval officers took a number of days to verify the wreck was indeed the Montevideo Maru. ‘Terrible chapter’ closed The mission was put together by Sydney’s Silentworld Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to maritime archaeology and history, along with Dutch deep-sea survey specialists Fugro. The Department of Defence also supported the...