Too cool. One of the largest battleships ever built. Nice to see Allen is spending his billions on cool stuff.
In two words ( 
): awe-some
I like the fact that even after these years, the Japanese government is interested so they can have a memorial service at the site. You can say what you want about WW II but they really know how to honor and respect their lost soldiers and sailors.
And I didn’t even know it was missing!
And, of course, the US, UK, France and Russia would just say “Aw, f*ck 'em, they’re dead.”
(Well, no. But we wouldn’t make a national perpetual ritual out of honoring them, butchers, war criminals and all, either.)
The CNN reporter read Paul Allen’s yacht’s name as “My Octopus”.
The MY is the vessel classification. Like SS for Steam Ship as in SS Titanic.
It is MY Octopus - Motor Yacht Octopus.
Okay, okay, it’s YOUR octopus. I’ll let Paul know.
That is pretty funny, though.
The Musashi was 800ft long and 121ft wide. How can you “not” find something that large? 
Congratulations to Paul Allen and crew.
Musashi -
Good on Allen and his crew. An impressive warship, and good to have her found at long last.
Nitpick: it was the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic.
Did you ever think of changing your name from “amateur” Barbarian to “professional” Barbarian?
No money in going pro, and I’d lose my deferment.
If memory serves one of the first Congressional Medals of Honor was granted for killing a ton of American Indian women and children … Just saying.
Enough hijack. It’s very cool that such a large wreck was found by a small amateur crew, and better that it wasn’t Clive Cussler again.
I predict that more and more such lost wrecks will be found by relatively small expeditions - down to hobbyists and true amateurs - as the technology gets cheaper and all it takes is time and dedication.
I have seen that many people just don’t get how much area the ocean (or even just a small part of it) covers. They seem confused just how a ship can escape from being found, even when it’s on the surface.
At the height of the cold war, the US secretly pulled up a portion of a Soviet Submarine from the ocean floor. Inside the portion they recovered were six Soviet sailors. From Wikipedia:
“The bodies of six crewmen were also recovered, and were subsequently given a memorial service and with military honors, buried at sea in a metal casket because of radioactivity concerns.”
A video of this was later given to Russia in the early nineties.