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USS Hornet is the legendary “Doolittle Raider” carrier—now rediscovered as a deep-sea aircraft carrier wreck with details that still look shockingly intact. In this documentary, we follow how USS Hornet (CV-8), a Yorktown-class carrier, took brutal punishment at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands: raging fires, progressive flooding, and repeated torpedo and shell impacts that should have erased her reserve buoyancy. Yet USS Hornet refused to go down when her own escorts tried to scuttle her—an engineering mystery shaped by watertight subdivision, damaged stability, and a hull that kept holding together longer than anyone expected.

Then the Japanese arrived with Type 93 “Long Lance” torpedoes, and the physics finally caught up. We break down what that meant structurally—how shock, bending loads, and compartment failure can snap a carrier’s spine even after earlier attacks couldn’t finish the job. Finally, we examine the modern discovery method: sonar mapping, AUV sweeps, and an ROV descent into near-freezing, low-oxygen water where USS Hornet can remain remarkably preserved.

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