Deep-Sea Exploration Team Finds Wreckage Of Japanese World War II Ship
- 8 years ago
Locating old shipwrecks can take years, sometimes decades, but the team from NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer was able to find one almost immediately after arriving at the search site.
Locating old shipwrecks can take years, sometimes decades, but the team from NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer was able to find one almost immediately after arriving at the search site on August 10.
Though the vessel didn’t end up being exactly what they were looking for, it was fairly close.
When the crew set out on the waters off of Wake Island, it was hoping to find the Hayate, a Japanese destroyer used during World War II.
The one actually located is Amakusa Maru, a Japanese water tanker which was sunk by the USS Triton on December 24, 1942.
Locating old shipwrecks can take years, sometimes decades, but the team from NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer was able to find one almost immediately after arriving at the search site on August 10.
Though the vessel didn’t end up being exactly what they were looking for, it was fairly close.
When the crew set out on the waters off of Wake Island, it was hoping to find the Hayate, a Japanese destroyer used during World War II.
The one actually located is Amakusa Maru, a Japanese water tanker which was sunk by the USS Triton on December 24, 1942.