The recently discovered HMAS Sydney wreck shows that all lifeboats had been deployed. The German soldiers from the Kormoran, which sank Sydney, survived. What do you think happened to the 645 Australian sailors?
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It is very likely that they are all dead. They likely tried to escape. Those who did died at sea. All lifeboats probably did not have passengers, though. When a ship sinks, especially older ones, the lifeboats would try to stay afloat, causing them to just float by themselves.
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A good friend of my family is Australian and his mother was engaged to a sailor on the Sydney. She never forgot him until the day she died :) By Carmelo Amalfi (from http://sydneysearch.blogspot.com/) Shipwreck experts say human remains are not expected to have survived the ravages of time, pressure and seawater since HMAS Sydney sank off the WA coast in 1941. A close-up survey of the World War Two wreck is planned once cyclonic conditions in more northern waters clear up over the next few days. If skeletal material still exists at the wreck site off Shark Bay, it probably will be beyond camera view, inside compartments or rooms buried in the wreck's twisted remains discovered in 2.5km of water. Underwater video will only be able to survey the outside of the damaged wreck, the first images expected to be available by next week. Any remains identified at Australia's newest war grave will be left to the sea - the Federal Government having placed protection zones around the wrecks of both the Sydney and German raider HSK Kormoran.
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