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So you've caught me rifling through my kitchen,
reflecting on all the metals in our lives, as I often do.
We've got my stainless steel cutlery in here.
We've got my moulded steel of my cast iron pan sitting next to the steel of my fridge as well.
I'm Anna Budajski, I'm a material scientist,
and possibly you don't think about steel as much as I do,
but even if you don't, I have got an incredible story for you.
And like many good stories, it starts with a shipwreck.
They called me up on a Saturday morning and they said the ships are gone.
Wrecks across the world being broken apart.
Steel hulls hold to the surface.
just scars left behind on the seabed.
Rumours swirling about the preciousness of the looted metals.
Wrecks that are more than just metal and driftwood.
How to protect them raises deep questions.
Can we prove when it started, how long it's been going on for,
can we help the authorities catch these guys?