The ship was spotted at a depth of 22,916 feet. 🚢
"We like to say that steel doesn't lie and that the wrecks of these vessels are the last witnesses to the battles that they fought," he said.
"The Sammy B engaged the Japanese heavy cruisers at point blank range and fired so rapidly it exhausted its ammunition; it was down to shooting smoke shells and illumination rounds just to try to set fires on the Japanese ships, and it kept firing. It was just an extraordinary act of heroism. Those men - on both sides - were fighting to the death.
"We've got historical records relating to where they may have sunk. 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. 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. But there's still a certain amount of luck involved in all this.
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