by Mark LoProto | Dec 24, 2019 | Current Events, Pacific Theater, RV Petrel Discoveries, Ships
2019 was a very active year for the Research Vessel Petrel. An ambitious project launched by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, Petrel has continued to search the deep waters of the Pacific even after Allen’s death in October of 2018. Since 2015, R/V Petrel has...
by Mark LoProto | Nov 5, 2019 | Pacific Theater, Recent News, RV Petrel Discoveries, Under the Surface
If you’ve been following the many discoveries of the R/V Petrel expeditions, you likely have given some thought to the type of equipment used by the pioneering researchers. Founded—and funded—by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Petrel has been able to invest...
by Mark LoProto | Apr 16, 2019 | Aircraft Carriers, Pacific Theater, Recent News, RV Petrel Discoveries
In the month of February, 2019 alone, the expedition organized by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen found the wreckage of three World War II warships at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. In 2018, they had found more than half-a-dozen, while 2017 proved fruitful...
by Mark LoProto | Mar 11, 2019 | History, Pacific Theater, Recent News, RV Petrel Discoveries, Ships
Paul Allen passed away in 2018, but the expedition team he once spearheaded is still going strong, carrying on his legacy of uncovering important pieces of history in the Pacific. In the first few months of 2019 alone, the ship he sponsored, R/V Petrel, uncovered the...
by Mark LoProto | Feb 15, 2019 | Aircraft Carriers, History, Pacific Theater, RV Petrel Discoveries, Under the Surface
On October 26, 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost to the Pacific. In January of 2019, just a week after confirming the discovery of the first Japanese battleship sunk in World War II, the crew of the...
by Mark LoProto | Feb 8, 2019 | Japanese Ships, Recent News, RV Petrel Discoveries
Although Paul Allen passed away in October of 2018, R/V Petrel continues its search for sunken relics of World War II. The research vessel’s most recent discovery is the wreckage of the Japanese battleship Hiei. The find is the latest of more than a dozen wrecks...
