Monthly Archives: April 2015

DOS world record announced by Guinness

Deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck! DOS world record for the deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck has been published on Guinness website. Abstract: The British passenger steamship SS City of Cairo was torpedoed on 6 November 1942 by a German submarine and sank with the loss of 104 lives. In April 2015, it was…

DOS salvages the S.S. City Of Cairo

Wreck S.S. City Of Cairo – World record salvage at 5150m! Under contract to the UK Ministry of Transport, DOS recovered close to a hundred tons of silver coins from steam ship City Of Cairo laying at a depth of 5150m – a world depth record. The SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was…