world war 2 navy ship recently discovered in the pacific

He's also climbed the highest peaks on each of the seven continents and he recently went into space on New Shepard, the rocket and capsule system developed by founder Jeff Bezos.The sunken wreckage of the USS Helena can be seen in this screenshot. Vescovo was the first person to visit the deepest points in Earth's five oceans. But there's still a certain amount of luck involved in all this.' I don't want to use the phrase 'needle in a haystack', because there's a lot more research that goes into making that haystack smaller. We did take a look for the Gambier Bay, but this is detective work and these kinds of deep-ocean operations have never been conducted before. 'We've got historical records relating to where they may have sunk. 'There are two other American ships that have yet to be found - the USS Gambier Bay (escort carrier) and the USS Hoel (destroyer),' said Kelvin Murray from EYOS, the company that organised and led Vescovo's expedition. It's possible there are others even deeper than the Sammy B or the Johnston. Last year, Vescovo managed to find the destroyer USS Johnston at a depth of 6460m.

Several ships from both sides were lost to the deep.

A ferocious engagement, it ultimately saw a heavily disrupted Japanese Imperial Navy withdraw its forces. The Battle off Samar has been described as one of the largest naval battles in history. It's only the great tectonic trenches that are deeper still. To give a sense of how deep the resting place is, 98 percent of the world's ocean bottom is less than 6000m deep.

The Sammy B has puncture holes from Japanese shells and there is evidence in the stern quarter of one massive hit.įrom its crumpled appearance, it appears the vessel impacted the seafloor bow first. Part of footage obtained from the depths of the ocean.

World war 2 navy ship recently discovered in the pacific