The robots had identified the wreck of the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” the sole US Navy destroyer captured by Japanese forces during World War II. Once known as the USS Stewart or DD-224, the ship now lies in what is currently the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, reports Times New World.
Ghost Ship of the Pacific
On August 1, a vessel released an unusual payload into the ocean approximately 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each over 20 feet in length and resembling torpedoes. For a day, these aquatic drones autonomously navigated the waters, surveying nearly 50 square miles of the ocean floor.
About 3,500 feet below the surface, an unusual image emerged on the robots’ advanced sonar. In the depths of the darkness, the drones detected what appeared to be a ghost. The robots had identified the wreck of the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” the sole US Navy destroyer captured by Japanese forces during World War II. Once known as the USS Stewart or DD-224, the ship now lies in what is currently the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
According to the New York Post, three days later, another group of underwater robots captured the historic wreck. Despite being cloaked in decades of marine growth and hosting sponges and skittering crabs, the 314-foot-long destroyer is remarkably well-preserved and stands almost upright on the seafloor.
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Source: Times Now World
