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'We're going to set up and do a high-frequency, high-resolution survey on it now, so we can just, really I just need to get a cross-section and a length on the ship,' Mr Kraft explains.

The first scan used low-resolution sonar, so the crew sent their AUV back to get higher-quality images. The AUV had been out overnight collecting data and the image of a warship appeared in the first set of readings on the morning of October 20 (local time). 'As the mission winds down, you get to that point to where, you know, are you going to be able to find what you're looking for, and this was very gratifying,' says Mr Kraft. The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, equipped with sonar to find the ship Weather was actually pretty bad last night, so we had to make a decision whether we were going to go so we went ahead, and we dove and on the first line of that survey, we came across a wreck.' Mr Kraft says it was: 'One of our final surveys of the mission, I mean we're winding down, we're coming to a close. The Akagi was found in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, resting in nearly 5,490 metres of water, more than 2,090 kilometres north-west of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese aircraft carrier went down in the historic Battle of Midway. With the autonomous underwater vehicle far below, Vulcan Inc's director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson review high-frequency sonar images of the warship and conclude it's dimensions and location mean it has to be the Akagi. It's the moment the crew had been waiting for. They've confirmed the identity of two out of four lost Japanese aircraft carriers and are setting out to find other battle wreckage last seen amid the fog of war more than 75 years ago.

World of warships american carriers vs japanese