{"id":132628,"date":"2021-07-19T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=132628"},"modified":"2021-07-19T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:15:05","slug":"underwater-drones-could-protect-royal-navy-sea-graves-from-looters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/underwater-drones-could-protect-royal-navy-sea-graves-from-looters\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater drones could protect Royal Navy sea graves from looters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Underwater drones could soon protect Royal Navy sea graves from looters, First Sea Lord says<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In recent years, Second World War shipwrecks have been plundered for metal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said\u00a0\u00a0\u2018they\u2019re not protected\u00a0 physically everywhere\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The wrecks of HMS Electra, HMS Exeter and HMS Encounter were found looted\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Underwater drones could soon protect Royal Navy sea graves from looters, the First Sea Lord has said.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Second World War shipwrecks have been plundered by illegal scrap-metal salvagers.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, head of the Royal Navy, said that while the underwater graves were protected by law \u2018they\u2019re not protected by physical presence everywhere\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/07\/19\/01\/45602557-9801161-image-a-41_1626655755535.jpg\" height=\"633\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Admiral Radakin and the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visited a US military forensic laboratory to wok on identify the remains from past conflicts<\/p>\n<p>He told The Daily Telegraph: \u2018My aspiration would be that in the future&#8230; we\u2019ll be using technology to cover either specific war graves, or to cover these large maritime protected areas. The way [we] will cover large tracts of the ocean will be a mixture of surface drones and underwater drones.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The wrecks of HMS Electra, HMS Exeter and HMS Encounter \u2013 sunk off the coast of Indonesia in 1942 \u2013 were found to have been looted five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ships claimed over 200 lives and should have been protected as war graves.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Radakin and the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visited a US military forensic laboratory to wok on identify the remains from past conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Around 300 British soldiers from the Korean War and 81,700 US military personnel from the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>But forensic anthropologist and archaeologist Dr Denise To said she is confident her team could identify some of the British soldiers who went missing from the 1950-1953 conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/07\/19\/01\/45602555-9801161-image-a-42_1626655759393.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Defence undated handout photo of the MADFOX, un-crewed surface vessel, used to provide deception and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance<\/p>\n<p>The remains of some soldiers have been transferred to her Pearl Harbour laboratory for identification.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he will see if the Ministry of Defence could assist in the work in any way.<\/p>\n<p>All wrecked Royal Navy ships are protected under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9801161\/Underwater-drones-soon-protect-Royal-Navy-sea-graves-looters-Sea-Lord-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwater drones could soon protect Royal Navy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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