Ocean explorer discovers 5 sunken WWII subs, giving closure to hundreds of families

• Ocean explorer discovers 5 sunken WWII subs, giving closure to hundreds of families

"Since she was a young girl, Helen Cashell Baldwin had been haunted by the mystery of what happened to the doomed Navy submarine USS R-12.
Baldwin's father, Fredrick Edward Cashell, and 41 other men died in June 1943 when the submarine sank off the Florida Keys during a World War II training exercise. 

The R-12 could not be found, and as Baldwin went from an 8-year-old girl to a 75-year-old woman, she all but lost hope that it would ever be discovered.
"As a teenager, I found myself looking for him, because there was never a funeral," Baldwin said. 

"There was never a memorial service... There was nothing."
But in 2011, a relative forwarded her a website claiming that the submarine had been found. 

Ocean explorer Tim Taylor, who set up the site, wanted to get in touch with relatives of the victims...Read all.