Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "David Louis Mearns, born circa 1958, is an American-born marine scientist and deep water search and recovery expert, long resident in Britain. He is famous for locating the wrecks of several ships lost during World War II. Mearns and his company, Blue Water Recoveries Limited, are in the Guinness World Records for the deepest shipwreck ever found, the German blockade runner Rio Grande, which was located at a depth of 5,762 metres (18,904 ft).In 2008, Mearns led a search team to find the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, which both sank following a mutually destructive engagement off Western Australia in 1941. Prior to finding HMAS Sydney, Mearns said that it was, in some ways, "bigger than the Titanic" because of what it meant to Australia. "Nothing comes close to the Sydney."At the end of 2010, he successfully led the search for another missing Australian shipwreck, the Hospital Ship Centaur, which was torpedoed off Queensland by a Japanese submarine in 1943.On 1 November 2010, Mearns was awarded an honorary Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of his discovery of Sydney and Centaur.On 3 March 2015, Mearns was part of a team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allan that located the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi, in the Sibuyan Sea.He has been responsible for the discovery of 21 major shipwrecks, including: the British Battlecruiser HMS Hood Lucona, sunk in 1977 by a bomb planted by Udo Proksch, as part of an insurance fraud Derbyshire, an ore-bulk-oil carrier which disappeared in 1980Mearns also led the 2001 expedition to the ship that sank Hood, the German battleship Bismarck, which had been found by Robert Ballard and his team in 1989."@en }
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- David_Mearns abstract "David Louis Mearns, born circa 1958, is an American-born marine scientist and deep water search and recovery expert, long resident in Britain. He is famous for locating the wrecks of several ships lost during World War II. Mearns and his company, Blue Water Recoveries Limited, are in the Guinness World Records for the deepest shipwreck ever found, the German blockade runner Rio Grande, which was located at a depth of 5,762 metres (18,904 ft).In 2008, Mearns led a search team to find the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, which both sank following a mutually destructive engagement off Western Australia in 1941. Prior to finding HMAS Sydney, Mearns said that it was, in some ways, "bigger than the Titanic" because of what it meant to Australia. "Nothing comes close to the Sydney."At the end of 2010, he successfully led the search for another missing Australian shipwreck, the Hospital Ship Centaur, which was torpedoed off Queensland by a Japanese submarine in 1943.On 1 November 2010, Mearns was awarded an honorary Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of his discovery of Sydney and Centaur.On 3 March 2015, Mearns was part of a team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allan that located the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi, in the Sibuyan Sea.He has been responsible for the discovery of 21 major shipwrecks, including: the British Battlecruiser HMS Hood Lucona, sunk in 1977 by a bomb planted by Udo Proksch, as part of an insurance fraud Derbyshire, an ore-bulk-oil carrier which disappeared in 1980Mearns also led the 2001 expedition to the ship that sank Hood, the German battleship Bismarck, which had been found by Robert Ballard and his team in 1989.".