It was a chilly August afternoon in 2005.

25-year-old Ricardo Bordones had just arrived in a small town on the northern coast of Chile,

called Bunta de Choros.

Its calm waters were ideal for one of Ricardo's favorite hobbies, scuba diving or buciad.

But on this day, he was there for something much more important.

Ricardo planned to find the remains of a Chilean shipwreck, or now-fragio, from almost a hundred years ago.

He wasn't a trained explorer.

By day, he worked as a sociologist.

But, in his free time, his life revolved around the ocean.

He dreamt of exploring the depths and mysteries of the sea.

It was thanks to this obsession that he came across the story of a legendary wartime steamship, called El Vapore Ithada.

It was just a incredible story.

In 1922, a very famous boat came out of my city, Coquimbo, and it was a close-up of the shore.

Many people of Coquimbo died in that accident.

These stories were so important that they fascinated me.

However, it was the first time I heard this tragedy.

I wondered how it was possible and wanted to investigate the shipwreck.

The Ithada had played an important role in Chile's history.

During the turn of the 20th century, it had helped Chile win a war.

In the early 1900s, it had been repurposed as one of Chile's large cargo and passenger ships.

So, Ricardo thought the place where it sunk, or, se un dio, had to be common knowledge.

When he arrived in Buntada de Choros, he went straight to the scuba diving shop.

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