World’s deepest known shipwreck fully surveyed

A Texas-based company is showing off its work after fully surveying the world’s deepest known shipwreck.

A crew from Caladan Oceanic took a vessel to map and film the USS Johnston 21-thousand-180 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

It is a World War Two U.S. Navy destroyer that was sunk during a battle with Japan in 1944. Caladan Oceanic’s founder, Victor Vescovo, was given the record of completing the deepest shipwreck dive ever.

He said as a former Navy commander, he’s proud to help bring “clarity and closure” to the ship, its crew and loved ones.

The world’s deepest known shipwreck, a World War II US Navy destroyers called the USS Johnston, has been fully mapped and filmed by a US-based crew. The USS Johnston, pictured here in 1943. (Source: Fox Carolina).

Sam Cox, director of the NHHC, said the new images of the wreck of the Johnston help the Navy put the spotlight on the heroism and history of its crew.

The Johnston was captained by Cmdr. Ernest Evans, a Native American from Oklahoma. Along with two other US destroyers and four smaller destroyer escorts, Evans led the Johnston in attacking a far superior Japanese force of four battleships, six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and 11 destroyers, according to the NHHC account of the battle.

Two of the three ships that followed the Johnston into the Japanese battle line were also sunk, said Carl Schuster, former Navy captain and Hawaii Pacific University instructor.

“The discovery of the USS Johnston serves as yet another reminder of the heroism and sacrifice of that day in Leyte Gulf 77 years ago,” he said.

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