The Navy said Tuesday that two Australian groups, Sea Scan Survey and DPT Scuba, helped confirm the Ommaney Bay’s identity with survey information and video footage captured in deep sea dives of the wreck site.

I snapped again, and almost as if the little engine had been waiting for this to happen, it answered immediately with a chug, and we swerved across the dreadnought's bow.The wreckage site’s location was provided in 2019 to the Navy by Vulcan, LLC, a company founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which owns a shipwreck hunting vessel. Now the ship was within thirty yards of us, cruelly pointing her bow directly toward our little boat. I was frightened even the engine seemed to foresee its fate! In the delay, I had but one idea: a chance for another snapshot. The engine gasped, made a struggle to work, but gave up immediately.

The moments were precious now, so I shot the camera, and shouted for full speed ahead. On came the ship, her bow-spray looming up before us like two green, foaming, white-crested wings. She was nearing us now, and bearing down at the speed of twenty-two miles an hour a great, overawing monster! The vibration from our engine was bothering me, so I decided to take a chance, and ordered the engine stopped. I was eager to get a picture full of life and dramatic action, - of the ship under full speed, taken from directly in front, something never before accomplished, - so I ordered the engineer to gauge the distance and allow me to stand in her course, until the last possible moment before making our escape.

Once there, I didn't have to wait long before the ship's smoke on the horizon warned me of her approach. ' It was just before sundown when, in a small motor-boat, I arrived in the direct course of the Connecticut, several miles out in the open sea off the coast of Maine. He wrote about being in a small boat and having the ship coming directly toward him at full speed.

Hi most famous photograph of the fleet is of the USS Connecticut during a speed trial off the coast of Maine.

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