Lindemann's body was never recovered, and it is thought that he, Lütjens and other officers were probably killed in action when shellfire from the British warships landed on "Bismarck"s bridge at 09:02. When Robert Ballard, the oceanographer responsible for finding discovered the wreck of the "Bismarck" in 1989, he found that most of the forward superstructure had been blasted away by shells and there were more than 50 shell holes around the area of the conning tower. This may support the theory.