{"id":45805,"date":"2022-06-27T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T02:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/27\/shipwreck-of-us-destroyer-sammy-b-becomes-deepest-ever-discovered"},"modified":"2022-06-27T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T02:54:36","slug":"shipwreck-of-us-destroyer-sammy-b-becomes-deepest-ever-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45805","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck of US destroyer \u2018Sammy B\u2019 becomes deepest ever discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second world war ship found broken in two at depth of 22,916 feet in Philippines at \u2018hallowed war grave\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A US navy destroyer that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of the second world war in the Philippines has become the deepest shipwreck to be discovered, according to explorers.<\/p>\n<p>The USS Samuel B Roberts, popularly known as the \u201cSammy B\u201d, was identified on Wednesday broken into two pieces on a slope at a depth of 22,916 feet (6,985m), or about four miles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/27\/shipwreck-of-us-destroyer-sammy-b-becomes-deepest-ever-discovered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second world war ship found broken in two at depth of 22,916 feet in Philippines at \u2018hallowed war grave\u2019A US navy destroyer that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of the second world war in the Philippines has become the deepe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,220,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-second-world-war","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45805\/revisions\/45806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}