Retired US naval officer Victor Vescovo announced that the world’s deepest shipwreck has found. Vescovo announced that the destroyer “USS Samuel B Roberts” of the US Navy, which sank during the battle in the Philippine Sea off Samar in October 1944, was located 6,900 kilometers below sea level. Stating that the ship was damaged but mostly intact, Vescovo told that it’s an extraordinary feeling to find the lost ship. “We can say that these shipwrecks are the last witnesses of wars,” Vescovo said in his statement. Meanwhile, the images recorded by Vescovo’s “Limiting Factor” submarine show that there are artillery and bullet marks on the hull of the sunken ship.
On the other hand, 89 of the ship’s 224 crew members were killed in the war between the US and Japanese navies. The 120 survivors had waited to be rescued by boats for 50 hours. The Battle of Samar is described as one of the greatest naval battles in history.