Why Nobody Can Reach the IJN Akagi

Seventeen thousand seven hundred feet down, in the middle of the
Pacific, a Japanese aircraft carrier has been sitting on the bottom of
the ocean for more than eighty years.

She was Japan's fleet flagship. The order to attack Pearl Harbor was
given from her bridge. Six months later, three American dive bombers
turned her into a burning wreck in five minutes, and her own crew
scuttled her to stop her falling into American hands.

For the next seventy seven years, nobody knew where she was. Then in
October 2019, a research vessel called the R/V Petrel found her.
Upright. Largely intact. Sitting on a flat abyssal plain deeper than
almost any warship wreck in the world.

Nobody has ever been back.

In this video I look at how the Akagi was lost at Midway, how she was
finally found, and why almost no vehicle on Earth is built to reach
her.

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Information in this video comes from the following sources:
Japanese Aircraft Carrier Akagi — Wikipedia
Battle of Midway — Wikipedia
Vulcan Inc R/V Petrel Expedition — Paul Allen Foundation Press Release 2019
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway — Parshall & Tully
Akagi Wreck Discovery — USNI News October 2019
NOAA Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Archaeology
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers 1921-1945 — Osprey Publishing
Naval History and Heritage Command — Akagi
Sunken Rising Sun — US Naval Institute Naval History Magazine

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