A treasure hunter claimed to have found 3 billion US dollars in platinum on a sunken British ship torpedoed during the Second World War. 

The Sub Sea Research, a company based in the northeastern US state of Maine, found the British ship SS Port Nicholson on the ocean floor around 30 miles off Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reported.

Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research said that a US Treasury Department ledger showed platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the U.S. for war supplies. 

"I'm going to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water," Brooks said.

"There's a good possibility there are about 10 tons of gold down there, too, and maybe some industrial diamonds," he added.

The treasure hunter said that there are at least 30 boxes scattered around the shipwreck.

The Port Nicholson was sailing from Halifax in Canada to New York when it was torpedoed and sank in 1942. Four people died when the ship went down and 87 were rescued.

The Sub Sea Research team discovered the sunken treasure in August 2008 with help from a remote control machine tethered to their ship, the Sea Hunter, the paper said.

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