Malaysia detained the cargo ship suspected of pillaging the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the gravesites of Royal Navy sailors killed in late 1941.
earlier this month. The marine archaeologists at MAST suspect the Chinese cargo ship may have been operating undetectedUsing satellite and maritime vessel tracking, they pieced together what they described as a “sustained campaign of destruction” at the site of the HMS Prince of Wales wreck starting in December. The ship returned to the area six times, spending about 54 days total at the site and using its double cranes to wrench material from the wreck, Richardson said.
Richardson said the Chinese cargo ship probably concealed its activities from authorities by “spoofing” its location on the Automatic Identification System, a transponder network created in the 1990s to keep large tankers from colliding.“We have evidence [the cargo ship] routinely turned off the AIS transponder when leaving port. This made tracking its movements a lot harder, especially on offshore sites like Prince of Wales and Repulse which are far out of sight of land,” Richardson said.
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