Wreckage of USS Hornet Located by R/V Petrel in the South Pacific Ocean
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Wreckage from the USS Hornet was discovered in late January 2019 by the expedition crew of Paul G. Allen’s Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel. The Hornet was found 5,400 meters (nearly 17,500 feet) below the surface, resting on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean around the Solomon Islands.
That old International Harvester tractor sitting upright,....awesome.
WOW! Thank you so much Petrel and crew for discovering these important relics from our history! ... R.I.P. USS Hornet.
I love how there's a perfectly preserved tractor onboard a carrier that sank 80 years ago
My wife's Uncle, SId Krieger was a chief radio operator aboard the Hornet when it was sunk. He was among those left aboard when the last Japanese air attack came in. As the planes approached he was lining up to go over the side. He went to a nearby machine gun and fired at the enemy. He is quoted as having said "Come on boys, 3 shots for a quarter", as if he were back in a Coney Island Arcade. He was picked up out of the water later by a destroyer.
Hornet, Yorktown, and Enterprise. The three sisters of the Yorktown class. Yorkie was sunk at Midway, her sisters survived that one. Hornet was sunk at Santa Cruz which Enterprise survived. It pains me that Enterprise was scrapped rather than turned into a museum ship.
Does anyone know if the Petrel team release documentaries on their discoveries? I'm highly fascinated by Paul Allen's work with regards to WW2 ship discoveries.
I'm 100 percent with you on this...
drain the oceans on nat geo covers some of them
Wow. Surely there are hours of exploratory footage? I'd LOVE to see more.
Its amazing how the marine ecosystem in the bottom of the worlds oceans is so different, in some places wrecks are completely covered by all sorts of marine life and corrosion to the extent where it makes the wrecks almost unrecognizable and in some places like here the wrecks look almost pristine, just like the day they sunk 75 years ago
It’s very deep,at 5500m of water it’s in the abyssal zone that has no sunlight and no oxygen.Wrecks below 1000m deteriorate a lot slower than those shallow wrecks.
@@user-jy8en3xs8i True, the best preserved shipwrecks are in environmental conditions that are either very deep, very cold, or have low oxygen levels (sometimes all three). That's why there are so many wrecks (wood ,iron , and steel) that survive in regions such as the Black Sea , Baltic sea, and in the Great lakes.
Wauw, high quality video, nice! The tractor looks like it's in pretty good shape
Crazy right? The name is so shiny and the tyres look good to go.
Please go search for the SS-215 (USS Growler). West of Luzon.
Because of it's condition we need to save everything we can. Rusting away is not preserving, it's wasting
At that depth the water surrounding the ship has a low oxygen level thus will slow down the decay of the ship ( not much rust). That wreck is at around 17,500 feet deep which would cause issues for salvage. regardless humanity often has a way with destroying things, so its best she stays were she lies.
Wow!!! Amazing please. Need more videos!!!
I mean I don't like war at all..i really hate it but I have to admit this is really amazing that this was found that's crazy..after all these years. Hornet dang. It's actually a beautiful ship..even if it was used in war..
at 041 it does look like somebody did not get out looking at the coat in the door. but it was abandoned before sinking so why its there is strange.
Close to one of the hangars.., on the side of the wreck., I thought I saw two round white objects.., really scary.. Perhaps human remains?
I think they need to search for the Andrea Gail I bet they would find it
This is not the Hornet in midway
This is the USS Hornet that was at Midway
Need to restore any WW2 plane wrecks still out there
I would like to know. What was happening at 55 into the video. The door is partially synched. The ladder is bent. So maybe a near explosion deformed the bulkhead and the coats were being used to stop water???? It just seems messy. Any other ideas
Like new.
What is that in that hatch? It looks like a coat?
Please look for the USS Wasp CV-7
I think they found it and the USS Lexington. search uss wasp wreck
@@woodzeppelin3241 they found the USS Hornet CV-8
The already found the USS Wasp,2 year ago.See the new videos update.
how come the rubber of the tractor wheels are so well preserved ?
Cold sea water, and a minimum of destructive organisms.
@@Sennmut I saw a picture of the uss Hornet wreck on Google.., looked like human remains. Close to a hangar on the side of the ship. I guess bones are preserved to?
@@jochemderuijter5267 Degradation of a wreck depends on environmental conditions. At that depth the low oxygen levels in the water prevent most marine organisms from thriving there. It also slows down any degradation to the wreck and organic materials.
@@raymondhutchinson7156 There's also layer upon layer of paint over everything as well. That makes a huge difference. It's also probably lead based.
@@vtbmwbiker True, the US didn't ban lead paint until 1978.
F4F or F6F at 1:06 ?
Hornet sunk before the Hellcat was produced so yeah, definitely Wildcat...
Do you know how many planes went down with the hornet?
I would love to see that tractor removed and put in a museum.