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Dark Secrets of the Lusitania

Dark Secrets of the Lusitania

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Dark Secrets of the Lusitania

2012

1h 38m

7.0(1 votes)

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Within 20 minutes of being hit, RMS Lusitania was at the bottom of the ocean and 1200 people were dead. Can a high-tec dive expedition done a light on one of history's darkest moments?

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