Silver coins worth $50 million recovered from WW II wreck at record depth

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Marine salvage experts have recovered $50 million (33.58 million pounds) in silver coins from a ship sunk by a German submarine in 1942 as it was transporting the cash from India to London to help finance Britain's efforts in World War Two.

Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search, the firm in charge of the salvage 700 km (400 miles) south of the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, said the recovery from the wreck of the SS City of Cairo, lying at a depth of 5,150 metres, was a world record.