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Royal Canadian Geographical Society Fellow Kelvin Murray recounts his role in the record-setting early 2021 expedition

The U.S.S. Johnston Sank in 1944. Divers Just Visited Its Wreckage. The shipwreck, 21,000 feet underwater, was discovered in 2019. A team of explorers has now confirmed that it was the Navy destroyer that played a key role in helping General MacArthur retake the Philippines. A shipwreck near the Philippines was confirmed last month as the U.S.S. Johnston, which Japanese forces sank in 1944.Credit...Caladan Oceanic April 9, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET Victor L. Vescovo had been sitting for several hours ...

Meet the Retired US Navy Commander Who Located the Deepest Shipwreck in History Julia Zaltzman Superyacht owner Victor Vescovo is used to making headlines, but this time it’s personal. On March 31, he piloted his submersible DSV Limiting Factor to the deepest shipwreck dive in history and became the first person to witness the USS Johnson since it sank in a World War II battle off the Philippines in 1944. The retired US Navy Commander, who served in the US Navy for 20 years,...

Three other ships that sank in the Battle of Leyte Gulf are yet to be found. The USS Johnston was located in water 62 per cent deeper than where the famous RMS Titanic was found in the North Atlantic. The Johnston was also a much smaller ship, making it extremely difficult to locate and was just five per cent of the overall size of the Titanic. Continue reading

USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck By Rebecca Morelle media captionThe USS Johnston has been relocated, surveyed and filmed at a depth of 6,456m in the Philippine Sea A submersible has dived to the world’s deepest-known shipwreck. The vessel reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km (4 miles) beneath the waves in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean. Explorers spent several hours surveying and filming the wreck over a series of dives. The 115m-long US Navy destroyer sank d...

Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck