In 2009, divers from Parks Canada found the barnacled, upside-down fuselage 40 meters down. When they saw it, they stopped work and contacted American authorities as remains were probably still aboard.
This month the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command dispatched a 50 person team to investigate in the salvage ship USNS Grapple and was at the site for 30 days.
They have found the remains of one airman and sent DNA to a lab for testing. They also found many well-preserved artifacts in the near-freezing water. There are no plans to raise it.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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