A WWII ship sank with 465 bars of gold. Almost 40 years later, a small salvage company did the “impossible.”

A WWII ship sank with 465 bars of gold. Almost 40 years later, a small salvage company did the “impossible.”

For almost 40 years, more than five tons of gold sat at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The treasure was locked inside the hull of a British World War II cruiser named HMS Edinburgh, 800 feet beneath the surface. Finding the wreck was difficult enough. Getting 465 bars of gold out of a sunken warship was a whole other problem. Pulling it off would require specialized divers, cutting-edge equipment, and somehow finding a way inside a ship that had…