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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 . In 2008, Mearns led a search team to find the Australian cruiser 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.〔http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-sunken-japan-wwii-warship-musashi-paul-allen-research-team/〕 He has been responsible for the discovery of 21 major shipwrecks, including: * the British Battlecruiser * ''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 1980 Mearns 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. ==Bibliography== * Mearns, David and White, Rob, 1945- ''Hood and Bismarck''. Channel 4, London, 2001. * Mearns, David L., ''The search for the Sydney''. HarperCollins Publishers, Pymble, N.S.W, 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Mearns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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