Shipwreck Robberies: The Search For The Divers Who Looted Underwater Mass Graves | Timeline

In what is being called ‘The world’s biggest grave robbery’, more than 40 shipwrecks serving as mass graves to thousands of World War II soldiers have been illegally plundered by salvage crews who may still be roaming free.

One of the most perplexing and wide-ranging marine mysteries of our time unfolds through the visceral first-hand accounts of reporters, scuba divers, marine archaeologists and scrap ironworkers. They recount the efforts to understand what happened and why, while searching for justice. The heinous crimes against history are dissected by an Indonesian investigative journalist, who recalls and uncovers an unlikely chain of circumstances that helped set the stage for these atrocities.

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