Researchers Find Long Lost Parts Of Sunken Japanese WWII Submarine

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Researchers diving off of the coast of Hawaii have found and taken video of previously undiscovered parts of a sunken Japanese World War II megasubmarine.

Researchers diving off of the coast of Hawaii have found and taken video of previously undiscovered parts of a sunken Japanese World War II megasubmarine. 


The wreckage of the then state of the art I-400 vessel was originally located in 2013. 


NHK, a Japanese broadcasting corporation, called for the recent expedition in hopes of finding more pieces of it and capturing images of them for use in a documentary.


Divers were concerned that the one-day dive would prove fruitless, as the location of the downed battleship and its various parts was largely a mystery.


The enormous sub, which included