Saturday, April 18, 2015

'Amazingly intact' WWII aircraft carrier rediscovered off California coast

Uss-independence

SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk at a secret location off the Northern California coast decades ago.


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration located and recorded video of the U.S.S. Independence as part of a mission to map an estimated 300 historic shipwrecks in the waters outside San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.



Images captured by a remotely controlled miniature submarine provided by Boeing and fitted with a 3D-imaging sonar system, showed the Independence sitting upright about 30 miles off the coast near the Farallon Islands. A plane is visible in a hangar. Read more...


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