Roland, is that a vertical line here?
That’s an absolutely vertical wall.
Yeah, this could be, this could be part of a wreck right here.
It actually looks like it’s either the bow or the stern of a vessel.
Those of you who are watching this from shore,
this is a live broadcast from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.
We are off of Wake Island.
We definitely have located a wreck.
Now we’re in the process of identifying exactly what wreck this could be.
Still a little bit of the wooden decking that’s remaining here, you can see that.
Got some damage to the hull coming up right now.
We’re zooming in on what could be some type of characters here.
Yeah, looks like they continue.
Looks like there’s another character and they're continuing around the stern.
“ASU.”
And then there’s another character.
So Asako Matsumoto on the chatroom right now says Amakasu Maru.
I don’t know if I pronounced that correctly.
So she says it looks like a ship named…
Amakasu Maru No.1.
That was a commercial vessel converted to being a water supply vessel.
It did a lot of work in all those small islands and atolls during the war,
supplying the water for these bases that were constructed or captured.
It was probably supplying Wake with water.
On December 24,1942, they were torpedoed by the USS Triton, an American submarine on patrol,
and sank and lost 12 of her crew when she went down.