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The 50-year-old mystery of an Australian ship that capsized, killing three crew members, has been solved.

The CSIRO said today it had found the wreck of the MV Blythe Star, a coastal freighter that disappeared off Tasmania five decades ago.

It was sailing from Hobart to King Island on October 13, 1973, when it suddenly capsized and sank off the south-west coast of the state.

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All 10 crew members were able to escape the sinking vessel into an inflatable life raft, but three died before the survivors were rescued 12 days later.

Tasmanians thought the crew had all died and were stunned upon hearing the survivors' ordeal.

Despite a major maritime search, no sign of the 44-metre-long vessel was found for decades.

But last month, a research team from the CSIRO and University of Tasmania studying a submarine landslide uncovered the MV Blythe Star wreck about 10.5km west of Tasmania's South West Cape.

The researchers confirmed its identity by using multibeam sensors and underwater camera systems.

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Seafloor mapping technology showed the shipwreck was lying in water about 150m deep.

The MV Blythe Star had been carrying fertiliser and kegs of beer and was headed towards King Island on the day of its ill-fated voyage.

While the crew managed to escape the sinking vessel on a life raft, they were left to the mercy of the drifting ocean currents off south-west Tasmania.

They drifted up and down the coast and always had the shore in sight but were never able to find a safe place to land.

They eventually landed on a small beach at the bottom of steep cliffs on the rugged Forestier Peninsula.

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A few days later, on October 24, 1973, three of the remaining seven survivors climbed the steep cliffs and struggled through dense bush to find help.

They eventually found help and identified themselves as the crew from the MV Blythe Star, only to be told: "Nah, you're all dead."

Following the tragedy, major improvements to maritime safety laws in Australia were introduced.

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A piece of wetsuit material is among the items found during the search for a missing surfer, who is presumed dead after he was attacked by a shark in South Australia over the weekend.

The search has entered its third day for Simon Baccanello, a much-loved teacher who was surfing at Walkers Rock Beach on the Eyre Peninsula about 600 kilometres west of Adelaide, when he was attacked just after 10am on Saturday.

Police said they also found small pieces of white polystyrene in the water today, which could be surfboard material.

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Baccanello was at the back of a group of about a dozen surfers on Saturday when he was attacked, with no one else injured.

Extensive searches over the weekend turned up nothing but a surfboard with a large bite out of it, as locals began mourning the 46-year-old Elliston Area School teacher.

Support is being offered to his students and colleagues, who will return to school today.

Elliston is an isolated coastal town about 600 kilometres west of Adelaide with a population of less than 400.

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The area is well-known for the high number of sharks off the coast.

However, this would mark the first fatal shark attack off the coast of South Australia since 2014, when another teacher was taken in the waters off Yorke Peninsula.

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A US university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurisation this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.

Joseph Dituri's 74th day residing in Jules' Undersea Lodge, situated at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo, wasn't much different than his previous days there since he submerged March 1.

Dituri, who also goes by the moniker "Dr Deep Sea," ate a protein-heavy meal of eggs and salmon prepared using a microwave, exercised with resistance bands, did his daily pushups and took an hour-long nap.

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Unlike a submarine, the lodge does not use technology to adjust for the increased underwater pressure.

The previous record of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes was set by two Tennessee professors – Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain – at the same location in 2014.

But Dituri isn't just settling for the record and resurfacing: he plans to stay at the lodge until June 9, when he reaches 100 days and completes an underwater mission dubbed Project Neptune 100.

The mission combines medical and ocean research along with educational outreach and was organised by the Marine Resources Development Foundation, the owner of the habitat.

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"The record is a small bump and I really appreciate it," Dituri, a University of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is a retired US Naval officer, said.

"I'm honoured to have it, but we still have more science to do."

His research includes daily experiments in physiology to monitor how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure.

"The idea here is to populate the world's oceans, to take care of them by living in them and really treating them well," Dituri said.

The outreach portion of Dituri's mission includes conducting online classes and broadcast interviews from his digital studio beneath the sea.

During the past 74 days, he has reached over 2500 students through online classes in marine science and more with his regular biomedical engineering courses at the University of South Florida.

While he says he loves living under the ocean, there is one thing he really misses.

"The thing that I miss the most about being on the surface is literally the sun," Dituri said.

"The sun has been a major factor in my life – I usually go to the gym at five and then I come back out and watch the sunrise."

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Talks between Australian and Chinese ministers on removing trade sanctions have been hailed a "positive" step by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

He made the comments after Trade Minister Don Farrell recently returned from Beijing, where he held lobbied his Chinese counterpart to lift prohibitively expensive tariffs on Australian barley, beef, wine, lobster, coal and timber.

While the sanctions will remain in place, Albanese told Adelaide radio 5AA today that the discussions had "gone somewhere".

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"Where it's gone is with dialogue. The first step towards getting understanding and getting agreements is to have dialogue," he said.

"It is a very positive thing that our Trade Minister Don Farrell … was up there spruiking the benefit, which is a mutual benefit for Australia and China, of removing any impediments."

Albanese insisted the in-person talks, the first between Australian and Chinese trade ministers since 2019, were a mark of progress, after the long diplomatic stand-off that started under the former Morrison government.

"Trade with China is worth more than the trade combined with the United States, Japan and South Korea. They are an important relationship for us," he said.

"We are working cooperatively wherever we can, we will disagree where we must but we are engaging in our national interest."

The prime minister also quizzed about how the government balanced normalising relations with Beijing while it announced a major increase in defence spending amid growing Chinese assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.

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Albanese said dialogue and engagement played a positive role, "but it is important that we look after our national security in all of its forms".

On the weekend, Farrell said there was "positive momentum" in his meeting with his counterpart Wang Wentao.

A reported visit from Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang in July is hoped to thaw the icy tensions between the countries.

Wang expressed his country's frustrations that their electric cars were not allowed to be imported into Australia.

Farrell said he also spoke out about Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Henjung, who have been detained in China on espionage charges.

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A prisoner remains on the run after police located two other escapees who fled a correctional centre near the Queensland–NSW border.

Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.

The two other men, 32-year-old Daniel Badcock and 20-year-old Osiah Pilton, were found by police at Northgate, a suburb in Brisbane more than 100km from the correctional centre, around 10am.

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The prison is a low-security centre made up of a series of buildings just off the Mount Lindesay Highway.

He is described as 170cm tall, light build of around 73kg with brown eyes and black hair.

"He has a number of tattoos on his body including, a full calf tattoo, four dots on thumb and 'Menzie' near thumb," police said.

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Mene is serving a three-year sentence for illegal use of a motor vehicle.

Badcock is serving a year for weapons or explosives offences, Pilton has a year and nine months for entering a dwelling with intent and Mene is serving a three-year sentence for illegal use of a motor vehicle.

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For many fisherman, there's a tale of the one that got away. In this case, Scott Haraguchi is glad this one got away.

He was out on his kayak fishing over a mile offshore from Kualoa in Windward Oahu and happened to accidentally leave his GoPro turned on after catching a fish.

That GoPro then captured harrowing moments that happened next.

"I heard a whooshing sound that sounded like a boat heading towards me without the motor and I looked up and I saw this big brown thing. My brain thought it was a turtle but then I got slammed by it and realised that it was a tiger shark," Haraguchi explains.

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Haraguchi says he was able to kick the shark away from his kayak and keep fishing.

He was running on adrenaline at the time, but it wasn't until he got home and looked at his video that he realised the magnitude of what had happened.

He's not sure what prompted the shark attack, but says shortly after, he noticed what appeared to a wounded seal.

He believes the shark may have mistaken his kayak for its wounded prey.

It's unclear if it's the same shark, but a day later on Saturday, a 20 foot shark sighting prompted officials at Marine Corps Base Hawaii to close North Beach and post signs.

In the meantime, Haraguchi says he's concerned about the recent sightings. He says he'll always bring a partner when going fishing.

He says he's also counting his blessings. "I realise that life is short, time is short on Earth, so make the most of it," he says.

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