In June 1942, the US submarine USS Grunion was sent to Alaska to patrol for Japanese vessels. On July 30, after being ordered to return, the submarine disappeared with 70 men aboard. After 77 years, researchers have discovered the hull of the lost American ship, along a volcanic dike off the coast of the Aleutian Islands.
Using advanced imaging methods, they created a detailed 3D model of the submarine's hull, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, 900 meters below the surface of the sea. Tim Taylor, a marine explorer, with the help of the Lost52 Project team that deals with underwater, archeological research, dedicated themselves to preserving the history of these submarines.
"This particular effort, beyond video and photos, is really the future of recording historic, underwater discoveries," Taylor said in a statement to the LiveScience website. "Now, archaeologists and historians, back home, can devote months of detailed research," added the researcher.
Built in April 1942 and just four months after entering World War II, the USS Grunion began her maiden and, as it turned out, only war patrol. He sank two Japanese vessels in Alaska, before disappearing during his return on July 30 of that year. The submarine was officially declared lost in October 1942, with all its men presumed dead.
Back in 2006, the submarine captain's three sons hired an oceanographic company to search for the vessel, with the stern of the vessel located in 2007. However, the vessel's cetacean remained missing until October 2018, when it was found resting on the edge of a volcano, about 400 meters from the rest of the wreck.
SOURCE:SPUTNIK