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A pauta aqui é o texto da CBS NEWS sobre um destróier da Marinha dos EUA afundado durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial que foi encontrado a quase 7.000 metros (23.000 pés) abaixo do nível do mar nas Filipinas, tornando-o o naufrágio mais profundo do mundo já localizado.
TEXT:
USS
Samuel B. Roberts, Navy destroyer sunk during World War II, is "the
deepest shipwreck ever located," exploration team says
FONTE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-samuel-b-roberts-world-war-ii-destroyer-found-deepest-shipwreck-ever-located/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=170754444
UPDATED ON:
JUNE 25, 2022
A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk during World War II has
been found nearly 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below sea level off the
Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts went down
during a battle off the central island of Samar on October 25, 1944, as U.S.
forces fought to liberate the Philippines — then a U.S. colony — from Japanese
occupation.
A crewed submersible filmed,
photographed and surveyed the battered hull of the "Sammy B" during a
series of dives over eight days this month, Texas-based undersea technology
company Caladan Oceanic said.
Images showed the
ship's three-tube torpedo launcher and gun mount.
"Resting at 6,895
meters, it is now the deepest shipwreck ever located and surveyed,"
tweeted Caladan Oceanic founder Victor Vescovo, who piloted the submersible.
"This small ship
took on the finest of the Japanese Navy, fighting them to the end," he wrote.
According to U.S. Navy records, Sammy B's crew
"floated for nearly three days awaiting rescue, with many survivors
perishing from wounds and shark attacks." Of the 224 crew, 89 died.
The battle was part of the larger Battle
of Leyte, which saw intense fighting over several days between U.S. and
Japanese forces.
Sammy B was one of four U.S. ships sunk
in the October 25 engagement.
Among the crew's victims was Gunners
Mate 3rd Class Paul Henry Carr, from Checotah, Oklahoma. Images posted
by Vescovo show the turret "where the brave and mortally wounded GM3 Paul
H. Carr died trying to place a final round into the broken breech."
According to the Oklahoma History Center, the ship's executive officer wrote: "Paul's
leadership and sterling qualities…won for him the battle station of gun captain
of one of the ship's five inch guns. His gun and gun crew were the pride of the
ship."
The
USS Johnston, which at nearly 6,500 meters was previously the world's deepest
shipwreck identified, was reached by Vescovo's team in 2021.
In the latest search, the team also
looked for the USS Gambier Bay at more than 7,000 meters below sea level, but
was unable to locate it.
It did not search for the USS Hoel due
to the lack of reliable data showing where it may have gone down.
The wreck of the Titanic lies in about 4,000
meters of water.
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