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defence correspondent Andrew Greene

How this team of maritime experts cracked Australia's Montevideo Maru mystery

Retired Commodore Tim Brown (left) and the research team aboard Fugro Equator. (Supplied: Silentworld Foundation)

A specialist team of deep-sea experts endured the effects of a tropical cyclone, conducted hours of painstaking research, but also had some extraordinarily good luck before finally solving one of Australia's greatest naval mysteries; finding the final resting place of the sunken Montevideo Maru.

On Saturday the Silentworld Foundation announced it had located the wreckage of the stricken Japanese POW transport ship, more than 80 years after it was mistakenly torpedoed by a US submarine in the South China Sea. 

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