From the April 4, 2021, Japan Times.
A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk during World War II and lying 6,500 meters below the surface off the Philippines has been reached in what is considered to be the world's deepest shipwreck dive.
An American submersible filmed, photographed and surveyed the wreckage of the USS Johnston off Samar Island during two eight-hour dives completed late last month. This was a project by the Texas-based undersea technology company Caladan Oceanic.
The 115-meter-long ship was sunk on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf as U.S. forces fought to liberate he Philippines, then an American colony, from Japanese occupation.
It's location in the Philippine Sea was discovered in 2019 by another expedition but most of the wreck was beyond the depth its remotely operated-operated vehicle could go.
--GreGen
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