Scientists Find Sand On Seafloor (Actual Headline)

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A MONTH after a live television documentary "found" the missing Japanese midget submarine from the 1942 raid on Sydney Harbour, the 24m-long, 46 tonne sub is lost again.

NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor yesterday announced that NSW Heritage Office investigations found the sub-shaped lump of sand on the ocean floor off Lion Island, in Broken Bay just north of Sydney, was just that - a lump of sand.
But the doco maker remains unconvinced.

"There is no submarine," Mr Sartor said, "Just a pile of sand. We are 99.9 per cent positive there is nothing there."

Standing at the National Maritime Museum with a real submarine - the decommissioned HMAS Onslow - in the background, Mr Sartor said a final check, using a magnetometer, would be made at the site but that a sidescan sonar survey and a sub-bottom profiling survey had found no sign of the submarine.

The three surveys of the site will only cost NSW taxpayers $5000 because much of the work was done for free by the NSW Water Police and scientists interested in discovering if the submarine was really there.

"Filmmakers Damien Lay and Chris Berry are to be congratulated for reigniting interest in Australia's maritime heritage with their detailed investigation into this theory," Mr Sartor said.
"I directed the Heritage Office to immediate evaluate these claims and finally get to the bottom of the mystery - but initial findings show the sea is yet to yield this long-held secret."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17619732-13762,00.html