In 2023, searchers found Australia’s worst maritime disaster four kilometres down: the Montevideo Maru, sunk in 1942 with more than 1,000 prisoners and civilians aboard, after 81 years lost
For 81 years, the final resting place of the Montevideo Maru remained unknown. The Japanese merchant ship sank on July 1, 1942, after being torpedoed by the American submarine USS Sturgeon off the coast of the Philippines.