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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stimulus mind" data-source="post: 26283121" data-attributes="member: 577135">Former US Navy officers have reached the deepest known shipwreck in a privately run submarine. The USS Johnston is more than 6.4 kilometres underwater at the bottom of the Pacific, but retired Commander Victor Vescovo piloted his submersible DSV Limiting Factor in two separate eight-hour dives. The destroyer was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, widely considered the largest naval battle in history.Commander Vescovo was joined by former Lt Commander Parks Stephenson and technician Shane Eigler.The 115 metre vessel was sunk on October 25, 1944, when fighting a much bigger Japanese opponent.The USS Johnston's Commander Ernest Evans famously told his crew "anyone who did not want to go in harm's way, had better get off now".None of his crew did.Of the Johnston's crew of 327 men, 186 died, including Evans.He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first Native American in the US Navy to be awarded his country's highest military honour.The ship was first discovered in 2019 off the coast of Samar Island in the Philippines Sea.[ATTACH=full]119375[/ATTACH]The USS Johnstone has been explored off the coast of the Philippines by a team in a private submarine. (US Navy/Naval History and Heritage Command)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.9news.com</blockquote>

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