The world's deepest sunken shipwrecks ever discovered

The famous Titanic sank in 1912 at a depth of about 3,810 meters, more than twice the depth of the Grand Canyon in the US and five times the height of the tallest building in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, but still far from the deepest wreck ever discovered.

USS Samuel B

The world's largest underwater wreck is the USS Samuel B. Roberts, aka "Sammy B".

The ship was discovered by American explorer Victor Vescovo in June 2022, at a depth of 6,895 m under the Philippine Sea.

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USS Samuel B. Roberts sank while taking part in the final stages of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, killing 89 people.

USS Johnston

On October 25, 1944, the USS Johnston, a destroyer of the United States Navy, sank after a battle with the Japanese during World War II. By 2019, the wreck was discovered lying at a depth of 6,456 m, equal to about 15 Empire State buildings stacked on top of each other, off Samar Island, Philippine Sea and officially confirmed by 2021.

After finding the ship, the expert team said that the wreck was completely destroyed, leaving only debris.

SS Rio Grande

The SS Rio Grande was a German World War II ship that sank to a depth of about 5,762 m due to an attack by an American fighter plane in 1944.

In 1996, the ship was found nearly 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Brazil. Debris and items of the ship are still washed ashore.

Train SS City of Cairo

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In 1942, the ship was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine and sank at a depth of 5,150 m in the Atlantic Ocean with 136 passengers and about 100 tons of silver coins. The coins were recovered in 2015 and now returned to the British government with an estimated value of about 34 million pounds.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 24 July 2023