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Scuba divers visited long-lost shipwreck of SS Nemesis off Sydney for first time, photos show. The ship mysteriously sunk in 1904 and wasn’t found until 2022.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sophie Elmhirst, author of A Marriage at Sea, which chronicles the voyage of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a British couple who was lost at sea for 118 days in 1972.