Over 1,300 survivors were taken aboard by other Japanese warships, according to the U.S.
More than 1,000 of the Musashi’s crew were killed during the battle and sinking. Navy dive bombers also hit the ship 16 times, but it was the torpedo hits that doomed the Musashi. aircraft carriers scored at least 10 hits on the battleship over the course of four hours. The ship sank on October 24, 1944, during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the central Philippines. Now, they’re planning to take viewers on a real-time tour of the wreck with the unmanned submersible they used to find it at a depth of around 1 kilometer (3,280 feet). They had been searching for the ship for more than eight years.Īfter the discovery last week, the team shared photos and video footage of parts of the vessel. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen plans to live-stream an underwater tour of a wreck off the Philippine coast that’s believed to be the remains of a long-lost World War II Japanese battleship.Īllen, a philanthropist, said last week that he and his research team had discovered the wreck of the Musashi, which was once one of the two largest warships in the world. The images and video were taken by an unmanned submersible deployed from the vessel. An underwater camera showed various sections of the ship, which displaced 69,000 tons when it was built, putting it in the largest class of battleships at that time.
The live stream from what is believed to be the wreck of the World War II battleship Musashi in the waters around the Philippines began at 9:03 a.m. warplanes swarmed at the Leviathan of battleships, Japan’s Musashi, splashing down torpedoes or dive bombing it.
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