Found BB Roma

A press release of two hours ago is declaring that the wreck site of BB Roma has been found after 69 years.
The ship is laying under 1200 meter in a seabed canyon.
In the next week some exploration will be performed.

OK, thats some pretty cool news. I'll have to follow developments in that!

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The BB Roma has been found a couple of weeks ago.
Here is the first official picture form the Italian Navy web site

http://www.marina.difesa.it/Conosciamoc ... aroma.aspx

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Ah so at least one half is upright? I was expecting both halves to have remained turned over.

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here is the translation of the Italian Navy web site

In the Gulf of Asinara was finally identified a portion of the wreck of the Battleship Roma located about 1000 meters deep and about 16 miles off the coast of Sardinia. The first and exclusive pictures of the wreck were taken from Engineer GuidoGay, founder and owner of company Gaymarine, which since several years leads experiments of the innovative equipment for underwater exploration designed and built by him. With the help of the sophisticated underwater robot Pluto Palla, and other exclusive instruments placed on board the catamaran Daedalus owned by the same engineer, the site where the wreck of the battleship Roma was identified and visited.
The staff of the (Italian) Navy, invited aboard the Daedalus by Mr. Guido Gay, our countryman, has unequivocally verified the consistency of images, taken first on 17 giugno2012 and then again on June 28, 2012, of AA guns installed on the battleship Roma.
After 69 years it is possible to assign the correct position to what the (Italian) Navy considers one of the most important shrines of the sea: the battleship Roma was sunk on September 9, 1943 by a German plane and 1352 sailors died, together the commander of the naval battle forces of the (Italian) Royal Navy, Admiral Carlo Bergamini. Only 622 men survived.

and the video!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF529Tf4DUU

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