Following the discovery of the wrecks, a second inquiry into the loss of "Sydney" was held, this time by the Department of Defence. The inquiry was presided over by Terence Cole, an expert in maritime law and a former Deputy Judge Advocate General. Cole's findings were published in a three-volume report in July 2009, with one volume focusing specifically on assessing the various controversies and alternative theories surrounding the battle. The inquiry concluded that Burnett was responsible for placing his ship in danger, but stopped short of claiming negligence, and also found no evidence to support any of the alternative theories investigated. A month later, shipwreck hunter David Mearns published an account of the search for the two ships: "The Search for the Sydney: How Australia's greatest maritime mystery was solved". Dr Tom Lewis published "What has the wreck of the Sydney told us?" in "Warship" magazine Issue 44, and "Needles and Haystacks – Why finding the wreck of the "Sydney" was so difficult" in the Australian War Memorial's "Wartime" magazine, Issue 43.