article_snippet.sent: The USS Independence is resting 800m underwater off California's Farallon Islands with The USS Independence hull and deck very well preserved and clearly visible.
article_snippet.sent: Features of the 'amazingly intact' USS Independence are captured in a three-dimensional sonar image (bottom) of the shipwreck - 64 years after it sunk .
article_snippet.sent: Found: The USS Independence was found off California's Farallon Islands (pictured) with its hull and deck very well preserved and clearly visible .
article_snippet.sent: After taking part in yet another explosion, The USS Independence was eventually decommissioned in August 1946 before The USS Independence highly radioactive hull was taken to San Francisco five years later.
article_snippet.sent: After 64 years on the seafloor, The USS Independence sits on the bottom as if ready to launch The USS Independence planes,' said James Delgado chief scientist on the NOAA mission.
article_snippet.sent: The USS Independence is one of an estimated 300 wrecks in the waters off San Francisco - and the deepest known shipwreck in the sanctuary, according to NOAA.
article_snippet.sent: After 64 years on the seafloor, Independence (pictured in 1943) sits on the bottom as if ready to launch Independence (pictured in 1943) planes,' said James Delgado chief scientist on the NOAA mission .
article_snippet.sent: Independence was moored in San Francisco until age caught up with her and her was towed out to sea for scuttling in January 1951.
article_snippet.sent: Independence was found as part of a two-year NOAA mission to locate historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and nearby waters.
article_snippet.sent: Independence was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation and commissioned in January 1943.