Three underwater drones located WWII’s “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” after nearly 80 years, upright 1,067 metres beneath the ocean

It took three autonomous underwater drones less than a day to solve a mystery that had lingered since the end of World War II. More than 1,067 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers located the wreck of USS Stewart (DD-224), the only American destroyer to serve under both the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Resting upright on the seabed and still largely intact, the vessel marks the end of an 80-year search for one of the war’s most unusual ships, remembered by Allied airmen as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific.” The discovery was made during an expedition led by marine robotics company Ocean Infinity in partnership with the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation, SEARCH Inc., the Naval History and Heritage Command , and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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