Victor Vescovo

We confirmed the hull number and I'm sweeping along the side of the wreck to get a good photo and video record of it.

And I was probably maybe just a little bit further away from the wreck than you and I are right now.

And right in front of my portal, I saw a depth charge in a rack.

And it was probably live.

It went down fighting.

So I really slowly backed up the sub at that point and said, we have to be really careful here.

Because I asked an explosive ordinance disposal expert a while later, I said, could that still go off?

He said, at that depth, after that amount of time, who knows?

And that would have been a bad day.

Did you find anything interesting down there?

Well, the cool thing about the wrecks, at that depth, there's virtually no oxygen, so they're pristine.

They're not like Titanic that has stuff growing all over it.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, so when you're looking at the wrecks, the holes, you can see the burn marks on the paint from the battles.

we could actually reconstruct parts of the battle from the shell holes after we took apart the video and basically built virtual reality replicas of the wrecks.

In fact, we now know because of the dive we did, we're pretty sure that the Johnston was hit by a shell from the largest battleship ever built, the Yamato.

We could tell by the shell size because it was the biggest gun ever put on the ship.

And so you're able to reconstruct history a little bit better by going down there and looking at the wrecks.

Steel doesn't lie, as we say.

And so the visibility down there is just- It's better than it is Titanic because it's so clear.