Interestingly, there has been a bit of talk about Sydney this year. It all started when some guy cliamed he had found Sydney along with a Japanese submarine, the Kormoran and, wait for it, a Japanese aircraft carrier...
Then there was this report which correlates with what the current thinking is - find the Kormoran and you'll find the Sydney (interestingly the recent wreck find is SE of where the battle was apparently fought):
New clues in HMAS Sydney mystery - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) New clues in HMAS Sydney mystery
Posted Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:10am AEST
Updated Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:12am AEST
The crew of HMAS Sydney, which was sunk in November 1941 with the loss of 645 lives. (ABC)
One of Australia's most intriguing maritime mysteries may soon be solved.
HMAS Sydney and all 645 crew disappeared in November 1941 after a battle with the German ship HSK Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia.
The Kormoran's Commanding Officer Theodor Detmers recorded his account of the battle in an encoded message in a dictionary.
Retired Captain Peter Hore has deciphered the code and says it will lead searchers to the site of the Kormoran.
"We don't know where the Sydney is but once we've found the Kormoran we will know in which direction to look because all the reports tell us that Sydney limped off into the darkness, somewhere in a sort of south-easterly direction," he said.
"Once we've established a datum by finding the wreck of the Kormoran then from there we can go south and go and search for Sydney."
And then we've got this latest claim to have discovered her. Sooner or later...