MV Blythe Star: Wreckage of Australian ship that sank 50 years ago finally discovered |Oneindia News

A ship that had capsized and killed three crew members 50 years back has finally been found at the bottom of the ocean.

The MV Blythe Star was making a routine trip from Hobart to King Island when it suddenly capsized and sank off the Tasmanian coast.

Three crew members died in the days after the October 13, 1973, incident as the seven survivors waited nearly two weeks to be rescued from an inflatable raft.

Despite a major maritime search, no sign of the 44-metre-long vessel was found for decades.

This discovery has ended a mystery that had been in the public domain for almost 50 years.

The Australian National Science Agency has confirmed that the ship's location was identified in April during a 38-day research mission led by the University of Tasmania, which included a side mission to verify the wreckage of an unknown ship spotted by fishing vessels in the past.

The agency said that mapping the sea floor showed that the unknown shipwreck was at a depth of about 150 meters and that measuring the depths revealed that it matched the dimensions and appearance of the MV Blythe Star.

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