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| USS Samuel B Roberts: World's deepest shipwreck discovered |
| 2022-06-25 |
| [BBC] Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water. Texan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo, who owns a deep-diving submersible, discovered the "Sammy B" battered but largely intact. The vessel is famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese. That's putting it mildly. US destroyer escorts weren't designed for yardarm-to-yardarm combat with Japanese heavy cruisers, but the officers and crew of the Sammy B got the most out of their gallant little ship. See Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #12 A non-Hollwood look at Vescovo's work. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-25 13:35 |
| #11 What an amazing find. Incredible. LSotTCS is a movie script ready to go. Before even getting into the latest gen of actors and their capacity to fill the roles, the current bunch of directors are absolute shit, and the committee of proper dialogue would fart all over things. Probably end up with something even worse than what the chinese did with Midway. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-06-25 13:23 |
| #10 Victor Vescovo for President. The man knows how to get hard things done. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-25 13:13 |
| #9 And just an incredible feat finding this. I mean, 4 miles/7km deep? Wow. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-06-25 13:00 |
| #8 Consider that video for sailors vs the risible pronoun training clown show. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-06-25 11:45 |
| #7 ^ Excellent link. Thanks, James. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-06-25 10:29 |
| #6 Drachinefel's Samar Straits video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdcvDiA3lE |
| Posted by: James 2022-06-25 10:02 |
| #5 Excellent book. They should all have been given the Medal of Honor. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-06-25 09:24 |
| #4 "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" one hell of a book |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-06-25 09:23 |
| #3 I knew a sailor that was there. His Gun Captain, he was a topside gunner on a 20mm Oerlikon mount, looked at him and said "Guns [his nickname], its been good to know ya!" Brave sailors one and all. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-25 09:22 |
| #2 A story Hollyweird will never tell. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-25 08:06 |
| #1 They gave the last full measure. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-06-25 07:29 |