The "Shipwrecks" Puzzle Mystery Cache
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
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The cache is not at the above location but is
within 2 miles.
Like many others, the Queen Of The North now lies at the bottom of
the ocean after running aground on Gil Island at about 12:40 am on
Mar 22, 2006. She was bound for Port Hardy from Prince Rupert and
at the time of her grounding was approximately 1 kilometer off
course.
On 26 March 2007, BC Ferries released its internal investigation
into the sinking. The report concluded that the Queen of the North
failed to make the required or any course changes at Sainty Point,
and that the ship proceeded straight on an incorrect course for
four nautical miles over 14 minutes until its grounding at 17.5
knots on Gil Island. The investigation found no evidence of
alterations of speed at any time during the transit of Wright Sound
and concluded that human factors were the primary cause of the
sinking.
Your job here is to find the required information about the
shipwrecks at the locations listed below. After that, a bit of
simple adding and subtracting and you will have the solution to the
location of the cache.
5V E 393936 N 6328022
Third digit of year built = A
52P E 194550 N 1274599
Last digit of year sunk = B
53P E 478231 N 1330247
Third digit of year built = C
16M E 357240 N 9823107
Hull number CV__ = D
60H E 356921 N 5946459
Number of lives lost = E
50J E 342828 N 6545212
Second digit of year built = F
21H E 574583 N 6134046
Last digit of year sunk = G
22T E 563725 N 4624154
Third digit of year sunk = H
35S E 341423 N 3569390
Second digit of hull number = J
19T E 434973 N 4476137
Third digit of year sunk = K
21E E 547506 N 2917484
Last digit of year sunk = L
1U E 544740 N 5872478
Last digit of year sunk = M
35W E 448038 N 7980284
Last digit of year sunk = N
37Q E 719354 N 1771862
Third digit of year sunk = P
36R E 683001 N 2912051
First digit of gross tonnage. Ship name is not an opera = R
36R E 775401 N 2791739
Third digit of year sunk = S
T = B – P
U = A – M
V = E + F
W = D – K
X = S – N
Y = G – J
Z = H + L
Q = C + R
The cache is located at North 49 0T.UVW West 122
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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