Warships’ wreckage search in Surigao Strait to continue
SURIGAO CITY, Philippines — The US research ship R/V Petrel is on a two-week mission to scour Surigao Strait for the wreckage of American and Japanese warships.
The head of the research vessel, Robert Croft, expects the National Museum to issue the permits on Monday, Mayor Ernesto Matugas told The STAR yesterday.
R/V Petrel, which found the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet deep in the Surigao Strait last Aug. 18, is expected to explore the waters to look for Japanese battleships Fuso and Yamashiro.
“It’s been 72 years since the USS Indianapolis…a heavy cruiser that carried components of a nuclear bomb…went missing after a Japanese submarine torpedoed it in the final days of World War II,” Matugas said.
He said the city government would seek assistance from the national government to build a museum to house the memorabilia of the Battle of Surigao Strait.
“It will surely put Surigao City in the world map of history tourism,” Matugas said.
Roslyn Merlin, city tourism officer, said officials of the US research team and R/V Petrel assured Matugas and other local officials that they would help build the planned museum.
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