The researchers found at the bottom of the Pacific ocean, the wreckage was destroyed in 1945 by a Japanese submarine USS “Indianapolis”. About it reports CNN TV channel.
The team, headed by co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen was able to detect heavy cruiser at a depth of 18 thousand feet (5.5 thousand feet).
The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk during the Second world war, 30 June 1945. The cruiser sank within 12 minutes. On Board were killed in 883, 316 sailors survived.
A few days before death ship brought to the base, the U.S. air force on Tinian island components for the nuclear bomb “Little boy” which was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
In December 2016 research underwater robot has taken a picture of the remains of the U.S. battleship Arizona, destroyed in an attack by Japanese aircraft at the main base of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific at pearl Harbor.
In September of the same year, the crew of the research vessel “Martin Bergman” found off the coast of Canada the wreckage of the ship “Terror,” British expedition under the command of sir John Franklin, who died in the Arctic ice in the middle of the XIX century.