(Image source: dwayne.net)An operation has begun to recover up to €1 billion in gold from a sunken ship off Donegal.
RMS Empress of Britain was abandoned in 1940 after being hit by a Nazi bomber and set ablaze.
The wreck lies 500 metres deep about 130 kilometres off the coast of Donegal.
According to the Times Ireland, a private recovery operator is on a mission to find the gold.
The government has been informed and could be in line for a multimillion-euro windfall.
