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Cornish company Multibeam Services will spend months looking for the Merchant Royal off the coast of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles.

The true fate of many of these ships will never be known, but speculation suggests that storms, piracy, mutiny, accidental bombing, and even the attack of a giant squid could be responsible for their vanishings.

The United Nations has estimated at least three million shipwrecks are lying across our ocean floors

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The shipwreck with £1bn worth of treasure that lies off the West Country coast It has been searched by salvage companies for years A sunken submarine in the Atlantic Ocean where shipwrecks like the Royal Merchant remain missing GET THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM ACROSS SOMERSET STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendatio...