The Coordinates Had Been Wrong
The Japanese torpedo bomber Nakajima B5N had deployed a 500-pound bomb onto a sub in the waters. According to the report, the device struck the vessel to the rear of its conning tower. After that, the craft was blown up and sunk right away. It did not seem like there were survivors. In November 2019, Yutaka Iwasaki talked to the New York Times about what he saw in the wartime files. “In that radio record, there [are] a longitude and a latitude of the attack, very clearly.” It is shocking that the coordinates led to a site that was over a hundred miles away from the one assumed by the U.S. Navy since 1949.
The Coordinates Had Been Wrong
This Gave Them A Fighting Chance
With the new piece of information, Taylor knew that they now had a better chance of finding the Grayback. It is pretty amazing that the team at Lost 52 Project indeed found the lost submarine. Its hull was nearly in one piece even though it has been a couple of decades since it sunk. The discovery caused mixed emotions among the researchers and divers. When Taylor spoke to the New York Times, he discussed how they felt about it. He said, “We were elated. But it’s also sobering because we just found 80 men.” This momentous discovery did not only affect the people who made the trip down there. The relatives of the missing submarines were also affected by the discovery of the Grayback.
This Gave Them A Fighting Chance