Treasure Hunters Pull Silver Coins from WWII Shipwreck at Record Depth

Deepwater salvage and restoration agency Deep Ocean Search says it has pulled “several tens of tons” of silver cash from a WWII shipwreck at a world file depth of 5,150 meters.

The bounty is estimated to be value a whopping $50 million, in accordance with reviews.

The cash have been discovered within the wreck of the SS City of Cairo, a blended cargo and passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat because it sailed within the south Atlantic in 1942. The ship, belonging to Ellerman Lines, was on an unescorted voyage from Bombay to England, through Cape Town, when it was hit by two torpedoes and sank inside 10 minutes.

The SS City of Cairo was carrying 296 individuals, together with 136 passengers, and a blended cargo together with some 100 tons of silver cash belonging to the UK Treasury. Of these onboard, 104 individuals died, together with 79 crew, 3 gunners and 22 passengers.

DOS started its seek for the wreckage in 2011, and ultimately discovered it damaged in two items and coated in silt and dirt roughly 1,000 miles from the closest within the foothills of the mid-Atlantic ridge, DOS says.

Under contract with the UK Ministry of Transport, DOS mentioned it recovered a number of “tens of tons of silver coins” from a depth of 5,150 meters – a world depth file, in accordance with the corporate.

“Many items were seen on and around the wreck including the end section of the second torpedo, where the contra-rotating propellers could clearly be seen. Apart from the silver cargo this was the only item recovered from the site,” DOS mentioned in a press release.

The wreck was final dived in 2013 however the firm’s findings have solely now been revealed.