Inside the navy’s search for war grave robbers in the South China Sea
Global News
The crew of the HMCS Montreal was searching for a Chinese boat allegedly willing to disturb graves for a shot at Second World War memorabilia.
More than 80,000 vessels travel through the South China Sea every year — but the Royal Canadian Navy‘s HMCS Montreal has been on the hunt for just one.
“We were made aware of a Chinese de-rigging vessel that is reportedly dredging over (the) HMS Prince of Wales wreckage site,” said Navy Lt. Stephen Sipos, an operations officer on the HMCS Montreal currently deployed in the area.
Global News has a team on board the ship.
HMCS Montreal is on a six-month deployment from its home base in Halifax and over the last 10 days, Global News documented the work of the ship’s crew and the realities of leaving their families behind for a mission on the other side of the world.
And this week, that work included trying to thwart suspected grave robbers.
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