Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found?

Mendy writes "Tim Ankers, a British archaeologist, claims to have found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, lost with all hands in the Indian Ocean during World War II. He says that he's done this from the comfort of his home using software he wrote called Merlindown, which can analyze satellite photographs at different wavelengths to 'peer 75 meters into the earth and 16,000 meters beneath the seas.'"

Sweet!

[pmdata]

*Fires up Google Earth to search for treasure and naked women in the shower*

Tim - need your services

[whitehatlurker]

Big deal - a ship is rather large. Can you find my keys?

Re:Too good to be true I think

[cmeans]

Actually, sounds more like hocus focus :)

Comfort of my own home

[lowid (24) _________]

What if you have an uncomfortable home?

Nobody ever considers this end of things.

Re:Whhhaaaaa? Aussies had a Navy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well they used to, until an unfortunate incident during the second world war.

LOLOL

[Spazntwich]

Whale, I don't know whether or knot his clams of being able to sea that deep will hold water, but he's certainly making waves in his scientific turf, or is that surf, anyway.

Re:Too good to be true I think

[Sporkinum]

hocus pocus by focus....

Divinities...

[Savage-Rabbit]

Mac Arthur was an egomaniac and no one other than Mac Arthur got credit for anything, regardless of whether they were American or Australian.

The size of MacArthur's ego is legendary. I once saw a film about President Truman. In one scene they were discussing MA being put in charge of the occupation forces in Japan and somebody mentioned that the Emperor of Japan had to regularly report to MA whereupon one of president's people made a really good sarcastic comment that went something like:

  "I'd sure like to be a fly on that wall... It isn't every day you get to see one divinity talking to another.

I don't know whether that conversation ever happened in reality but that quote sure sums up what many people who knew him seem to have thought of MacArthur.

Re:Sunken Warships on Google Earth

[jollyreaper]

Light (and all radiation) obeys the same rules of physics along the optical path, it doesn't care how much you 'pay' for it.

Could you speak to my boss? The man thinks that the laws of space and time are negotiable so long as you hire the right lobbyist.