The Detroit News: Microsoft co-founder says he found sunken WWII warship.
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| Musashi in 1944. Illustration by Alexpl. |
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| Musashi steaming on the way to her doom at the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea |
The ship was found 3,000 feet below the surface and Mr. Allen's team videographed the wreckage with an ROV, and some of the video is available at the link above.
Quite an impressive find of an important battleship from the Second World War. It will be neat to see the full video of the wreck once it is released.
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Oh, that's interesting. Dirk Pitt is currently exploring a massive sunken Japanese submarine from WW11 in my world.
At least it's deep enough that it won't be stripped...
PH: Lots of wrecks form WWII in the Pacific still to be found. Interestingly enough, Clive Cussler, the author for the Dirk Pitt series is a real-life shipwreck finder, and he's found a ton of wrecks from the Civil War and beyond.
OldNFO: No one could strip it without a serious effort at that depth that would be picked up pretty easily I would think.
It will be interesting to see if they or perhaps a Japanese salvage team try to recover the Imperial Chrysanthemum or other artifacts for the Japanese naval museum.
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