You might think it’s impossible (or at least off-puttingly hard) for a small band of criminals to dismantle a sunken World War II battleship, raise the pieces hundreds of feet from the seabed, and cart the whole thing off to sell for scrap metal. You would be wrong. Between 2006 and 2016, in the Java Sea alone, three British warships, three Dutch warships, an Australian warship, and an American submarine had been plucked from the bottom.
