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And on September 21, 1944, a U.S. warplane spotted the ship and dropped a torpedo that cut it in half. And the ship, unfortunately, had about 1,200 POWs from the British and Dutch armies. Many forced to work on the death railway, some swam ashore, but recaptured. And 1,040 died when the ship went down. And Japan used POWs for labor, labor on railways, docks, factories, and mines. 132,000 approximately, 130,000 from the U.S. and U.K. Almost a third died, 35,000 of these who once were working on the docks, factories, and mines, of exhaustion and malnutrition and disease. And human remains from this wreck have been found, and it's now going to be recognized as a war grave. And they're hoping that we'll stop people from trying to plunder it. Thank you.