The wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the last capital ship sunk during WWII has been found in 900 fathoms at the bottom of the Philippine Sea. She was sunk 30 July 1945 by I-58(?) commanded by Cdr. Hashimoto, who survived the war. Since the ship sank too fast to send an SOS, her loss was unknown for days until a Navy patrol plane spotted an oil slick with survivors. By then, most of them had succumbed to sharks, exhaustion, dehydration and only about a fourth of the crew survived. The Indianapolis had just completed delivering the fissionable parts of the atom bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima to Tinian and was sailing to Samar.

The Inianapolis's skipper, Capt. McVay was court martialed for not zig-zagging and it was the only proceeding in US naval history where the enemy officer responsible testified as a witness.
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