Well, there were a lot of these ships going around Western Australia’s coast all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that one-hundred-year-old passenger and merchant vessels aren’t safe.

A pair of shipwrecks lost for more than a century have been discovered off Western Australia’s coast.

Crews of television show Shipwreck Hunters Australia found the Rodondo, a passenger ship, and the Langstone, a Norwegian merchant vessel, off the coast of Esperance and Cape Naturaliste respectively.