Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the crew of the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga. For years, the crew has worked with the U.S. Navy and other officials to find and document sunken ships. Crawford doesn’t see much value in these missions to find lost ships, unless they can get some useful information on how the Japanese ships went down. A piece of the Japanese aircraft carrier was discovered in 1999, but its main wreckage was still missing until last week. From that painful lesson, we have become the closest of allies and friends committed to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.”The other three Japanese aircraft carriers the Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu and the Japanese cruiser Mikuma are still unaccounted for.

Source: The Hindu October 19, 2019 16:41 UTC