The deepest shipwreck in the world has been found in the Pacific Ocean. Its depth reaches 7,000 meters.
Reported CNN, the ship split in two and nestled in the slope. It is known that it was the USS Destroyer Escort Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), known as Sammy B.
Victor Vescovo, an explorer who had previously completed expeditions to the world’s deepest points, discovered the wreck on June 22.
Sammy B is located at a depth of 6,895 meters in the Philippine Sea. For comparison, the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro is 5,896 meters high, then the world’s tallest settlement, La Rinconada in the Peruvian Andes, is 5,100 meters.
Previously, the deepest shipwreck ever identified and surveyed was the USS Johnston. Its carcass was discovered last year by Vescovo and lies at a depth of 6,469 meters.
Vescovo, pilot and sonar specialist Jeremie Morizet, descends to track shipwreck Sammy B from end to end. The ship had broken into two pieces, located about 10 meters from each other.
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Missiles on the Sammy B/USS Destroyer Escort Samuel B. Roberts warship (Photo: CNN)– |
Sammy B was sunk in the Battle of Samar on October 25, 1944, in which the US Navy defeated a larger Japanese fleet, east of Samar Island in the Philippines.
Sammy B fought three Japanese battleships, including the Yamato, which was said to be the largest ever built. The US ship was carrying 224 crew members, 89 of whom were killed. Captain Robert W. Copeland was one of the survivors.
“The ship fought fiercely even though she was defeated by the Japanese battleships and heavy cruisers she fought,” Vescovo said.
 Missiles on the Sammy B/USS Destroyer Escort Samuel B. Roberts warship (Photo: CNN)– |
Initially they found debris from Sammy B, a three-tube torpedo launcher. On the last day, they found shipwreck that.
“The Sammy B was a small ship when military ships left, and we weren’t so sure that we could find him in the vast and vast ocean. It was incredible to be the first to see it in combat nearly 80 years ago,” he said.
The team also descended more than 7,000 meters to look for another ship, the aircraft carrier Gambier Bay, but did not find it. But Sammy B may not be shipwreck in the deepest location.
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