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Roland, is that a vertical line here?

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That’s an absolutely vertical wall.

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Yeah, this could be, this could be part of a wreck right here.

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It actually looks like it’s either the bow or the stern of a vessel.

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Those of you who are watching this from shore,

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this is a live broadcast from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.

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We are off of Wake Island.

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We definitely have located a wreck.

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Now we’re in the process of identifying exactly what wreck this could be.

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Still a little bit of the wooden decking that’s remaining here, you can see that.

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Got some damage to the hull coming up right now.

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We’re zooming in on what could be some type of characters here.

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Yeah, looks like they continue.

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Looks like there’s another character and they're continuing around the stern.

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“ASU.”

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And then there’s another character.

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So Asako Matsumoto on the chatroom right now says Amakasu Maru.

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I don’t know if I pronounced that correctly.

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So she says it looks like a ship named…

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Amakasu Maru No.1.

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That was a commercial vessel converted to being a water supply vessel.

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It did a lot of work in all those small islands and atolls during the war,

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supplying the water for these bases that were constructed or captured.

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It was probably supplying Wake with water.

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On December 24,1942, they were torpedoed by the USS Triton, an American submarine on patrol,

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and sank and lost 12 of her crew when she went down.