History - Deep Sea Detectives Death In The Mediterranean

December 26, 1996. An unlicensed ferry, smuggling 300 Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan illegals to Italy, disappears off Sicily's coast. Only 29 passengers survive, and they tell a wild tale of being forced onto a rickety ferry by a drunken captain and colliding with a larger ship. An Italian journalist finances a search using ROVs and finds the decimated ship surrounded by skeletons. Our detectives return to the scene of the crime to conduct an underwater investigation. Was it an accident or murder?

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