"I've seen some of these far-east salvagers in action. Hairy isn't the word for it. I'll bet it not just a graveyard for the WW2 ships any longer!
@Divebuddy. Are you saying that there was nothing mysterious about 2 ships disappearing completely and a third almost stripped completely was just down to "Salvagers"?
"But the three missing wrecks were located 100km (60 miles) off the coast of Indonesia, at a depth of 70m. Salvage operators say it would not be easy to lift them.
"It is almost impossible to salvage this," Paul Koole of the salvage film Mammoet told the Algemeen Dagblad. "It is far too deep."
Experts say the operation would have needed large cranes for long periods of time and would be unlikely to have gone unnoticed.
The Indonesian Navy, when contacted by the BBC, said they were unaware of the disappearance but said they would investigate.
"To say that the wreckage had gone suddenly, doesn't make sense," Navy spokesman Colonel Gig Sipasulta said. "It is underwater activities that can take months even years.""
^ Sounds unlikely unless there were thousands of salvagers with state of the art lifting equipment, ships and machinery.