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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
Good god! Necromancy! Well, as long as everyone else is doing it.
Guadalcanal's "Ironbottom Sound" is chock-full of sunken ships, but everybody probably knows that. Musashi should be fairly easy to find, considering she sunk in the middle of the Phillippines, hard to believe shes been lost.
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According to the famed wreck finder, Bob Ballard the wreck of
Musashi should be at 13° 07' 01" North, 122° 31' 59" East, in the Phillipines off the Bondoc Peninsula, in 4,430 feet (1,350 m) of water. Her exact location still hasn't been pin-pointed though.
However, even though her exact location is still unknown, according to this article in the Manila Bulletin some Japanese executives are planning to raise her:
http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/10/...021138571.html
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The Japanese, group headed by Kiyoshi Goto of the Japanese government and Toshihiko Suzuki, chief executive officer of AIPAC (Asian Countries and Islands Optical Fiber Communication and Philippines Property in Asia), made yesterday an offer to the Philippine government to refloat the sunken Japanese warship in the Sibuyan Sea.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Raising a 69,000 ton battleship pocked full of torpedo holes from 4,000 feet of water? Even assuming she sank upright or didn't implode it'd still be cheaper to build a replica.
