USS Samuel B Roberts: World’s deepest shipwreck discovered
The US Navy ship “Sammy B” sank off the Philippines in a ferocious WWII battle with the Japanese. …
“We’ve got historical records relating to where they may have sunk. We did take a look for the Gambier Bay, but this is detective work and these kinds of deep-ocean operations have never been conducted before. I don’t want to use the phrase ‘needle in a haystack’, because there’s a lot more research that goes into making that haystack smaller. But there’s still a certain amount of luck involved in all this.”