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The British liner S.S. ARCADIAN, torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk during World War I, taking 279 people with it, was discovered by researcher Kostas Thoctarides and his team southeast of Sifnos at a depth of 163 meters.

The British ocean liner Arcadian, torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk during World War I, has been discovered by researcher Kostas Thoktaridis and his team. The wreck was found southeast of the Cycladic island of Sifnos at a depth of 163 meters. The Arcadian, which went down taking 279 men with it, was en route from Thessaloniki to Alexandria, Egypt, with 1,155 military personnel on board.

A large-scale search by dozens of police and coast guard officers, rescuers and volunteers for a missing 34-year-old British-Cypriot woman on the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria ended without a breakthrough late Tuesday.

Greek police have found blood on the hotel bed of a British Cypriot female, who was reported as missing while on vacation by her boyfriend hours before the couple was set to fly back to Cyprus.

ABC News went to the Greek island of Ikaria for a special report. For those that don’t know it, Ikaria is a place where the word ‘longevity’ takes a whole new meaning, as it is a place where people effortlessly live to the age of 90 and beyond!