Deep Wreck Mysteries is a History Documentary programme.

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Deep Wreck Mysteries: The Leopoldville Disaster

Series 2, episode 3

Series bringing the South-West's deep-sea wrecks vividly to life, revealing a world of secret weapons, negligence and atrocity. On Christmas Eve, 1944, Allied troop ship SS Leopoldville was torpedoed. The ship sank and nearly 400 soldiers who survived the initial explosion didn't live to see Christmas Day. Sixty years on, using the latest dive technology, divers brave some of the English Channel's most treacherous and dangerous waters to reach the wreck of the Leopoldville.