A team of researchers have located the final resting place of the bow of a US Navy ship that was nearly destroyed during World War II.
The bow of the USS New Orleans was blown off by a Japanese torpedo in a 1942 battle that resulted in an Axis victory.
Nearly 83 years later, scientists and explorers with the Ocean Exploration Trust found the forward section of the ship around 2,200 feet underwater in the Iron Bottom Sound, a body of water in the Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands is an archipelago of hundreds of islands east of Papua New Guinea and northeast of Australia.
Experts aboard the Nautilus exploration vessel voyaged into the Iron Bottom Sound, which is already home to over 100 World War II shipwrecks, and took high resolution images of the sunken bow.
