If it was straightforward, it would have been done." His team is searching for answers rather than riches, as the time when people could make a fortune from wrecked ships is" well and truly gone".Mr Hodge said that any precious cargo he discovers will become heritage artefacts, despite believing the haul could be worth up to ￡4billion.He plans to use the latest technology to explore the seafloor, including ￡3. 5million underwater vessels capable of travelling 6, 000 metres below even the deepest

THE Royal Navy will remove 1, 400 tonnes of bombs from a World War Two shipwreck.SS Richard Montgomery has been languishing at the bottom of the Thames in Kent for 77 years-with fears it could explode at any moment, creating a five metre high wave that could cause “ mass damage and loss of life ”.... 5 The ship's masts poke out above the water and are deteriorating 5 The Telegraph reports a crack team of bomb disposal experts trained in specialist underwater demolitions have now been tasked wit

The Royal Navy has been called in to dismantle a sunken warship in the River Thames, as the latest assessment says 1, 400 tonnes of unstable explosives on board could cause “ mass damage and loss of life ”.... The SS Richard Montgomery, an American Liberty ship carrying a cargo of munitions during the Second World War, was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, in August 1944. About 1, 400 tonnes of explosives remain on board.... Bomb disposal experts from the Roya

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