'Deepest shipwreck': US WWII ship found off Philippines:
A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said.
The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during a battle off the central island of Samar on October 25, 1944 as US forces fought to liberate the Philippines—then a US colony—from Japanese occupation.
A crewed submersible filmed, photographed and surveyed the battered hull of the "Sammy B" during a series of dives over eight days this month, Texas-based undersea technology company Caladan Oceanic said.
Images showed the ship's three-tube torpedo launcher and gun mount. "Resting at 6,895 meters, it is now the deepest shipwreck ever located and surveyed," tweeted Caladan Oceanic founder Victor Vescovo, who piloted the submersible. "This small ship took on the finest of the Japanese Navy, fighting them to the end," he said.
According to US Navy records, Sammy B's crew "floated for nearly three days awaiting rescue, with many survivors perishing from wounds and shark attacks". Of the 224 crew, 89 died.
[...] In the latest search, the team also looked for the USS Gambier Bay at more than 7,000 meters below sea level, but was unable to locate it. It did not search for the USS Hoel due to the lack of reliable data showing where it may have gone down.
The wreck of the Titanic lies in about 4,000 meters of water.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Monday June 27 2022, @05:24PM (1 child)
The real kicker is that they missed the opportunity to share this with the last known survivor [de413.org] by just 3 months!
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday June 27 2022, @06:09PM
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Monday June 27 2022, @05:30PM (2 children)
Whoa, man. That's deep.
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Go ahead and downvote this, I can spare the karma.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @09:50PM
too much to fathom!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @07:13AM
We'll keep it on the down low but I think you've bottomed out.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @06:22PM (3 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_(DE-413) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @06:55AM
She'd be classed as a frigate in modern terms, but she fought like a battleship.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday June 28 2022, @08:18AM (1 child)
From TFA:
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 28 2022, @05:05PM
Sounds like someone didn't do their homework. That's a number of interesting key elements that they got wrong.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Tuesday June 28 2022, @08:44PM (1 child)
You keep using that word...
The word you're looking for is "reoccupy".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @09:35PM
Prior to WW2, all the great powers engaged in colonialism. Ask anybody who's still around from WW2 and I think you'll get near universal agreement that being an American colony was vastly preferable to being a Japanese one. Then in 1946 the USA granted them full independence. Other Western powers didn't give up their colonies until much later.
So yes, it was a liberation.