consisted of a deck gun, a propeller shaft, and some miscellaneous debris that could not be used to identify the wreck, but additional debris was observed lying deeper than the RV could go. On 31 March 2021, the research vessel DSV Limiting Factor of Caladan Oceanic, financed and piloted by Victor Vescovo, surveyed and photographed the deeper wreck and definitively identified it as Johnston. She sits upright and is well preserved at a depth of . Until Samuel B. Roberts was discovered on 22 June 2022, Johnston was the deepest discovered shipwreck in the world. Notes Citations References Further reading External links 1943 ships 2019 archaeological discoveries Fletcher-class destroyers of the United States Navy Maritime incidents in October 1944 Ships built in Seattle Shipwrecks of the Philippines World War II destroyers of the United States World War II shipwrecks in the Philippine Sea