465 Soviet gold bars were recovered from the wreck of the British warship HMS Edinburgh, which sank in the Barents Sea while carrying arms payments to the US during World War II. Divers spent 30 days in a pressurized chamber for the operation, which took place hundreds of meters deep.
A secret transport of 465 gold ingots sent by Joseph Stalin to the United States, as a payment for war equipment, disappeared in 1942 with the sinking of the British cruiser HMS Edinburgh...