The images of “ghost ships” revealed in the seabed scan data include three cargo ships from Japan and the SS Dellwood from the United States.
According to Live Science, maritime archaeologists have located three large “ghost ships” in the remote waters of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, USA.
These vessels have been identified as three military ships from the U.S. and Japan that were sunk during a battle in World War II.
“Ghost ship” Kotohira Maru, one of the shipwrecks found off the coast of Alaska thanks to sonar – (Photo: ThayerMahan).
The Japanese ships were sunk by bombs from American aircraft after Japanese forces attacked the Aleutian Islands in June 1942, about six months after the famous attack on Pearl Harbor.
Meanwhile, the American ship, tasked with laying underwater cables to strengthen defense capabilities, was sunk about a month later.
The ships have now been claimed by marine life – (Photo: WORLD SCAN PROJECT – JAPAN).
The research team, led by maritime archaeologist Dominic Bush from East Carolina University (ECU – USA), spent several years searching for these shipwrecks in this remote area of Alaska.
Ultimately, they discovered the “ghost ships” during a two-week expedition in July.
The images of these shipwrecks were found and reconstructed using sonar data, a technique that applies the propagation of sound waves to search for hidden structures in or beneath the water.
Subsequently, underwater exploration robots were deployed to access the wrecks, bringing back stunning images, including a vibrant ecosystem that has taken over these ghost ships after decades of abandonment.
