Kraft and lead researcher Paul Mayer told reporters that the Fuso-class dreadnought battleships Yamashiro and Fuso were found upside down, with the former mostly intact and the latter broken. The Battle of Surigao Strait was one of the main actions of the overall Battle of Leyte Gulf,” said Jeremy Barns, director of the National Museum of the Philippines, which granted the permit for the survey.Īccording to Jake Miranda, a local historian who founded the Battle of Surigao Strait Museum in Surigao, some 4,000 Japanese combatants perished in the fight. “The liberation of the Philippines (in 1945) could not have occurred without the Battle of Leyte in October 1944. and Australian naval forces seeking to wrest control of the Philippines from Japan. “The Surigao Strait is a very confined area, so the historical records and the actual reports of that battle are fairly accurate,” he added.Īlthough greatly outnumbered, the Japanese vessels engaged in a ship-to-ship battle with U.S. Referring to the Surigao Strait expedition, team leader Robert Kraft said the shipwrecks “are where the historical records place them generally.” “Now 76 years on, her example informs our naval posture.” “She took decisive, effective and unflinching action despite the uncertain waters,” Swift added. Pacific Fleet, was quoted by the team’s press release as saying. “The USS Ward found herself in the crucible of American history - at the intersection of a peacetime Navy and war footing,” Adm. 7, 1944, the Ward, a Wickes-class destroyer, was patrolling Ormoc Bay and acting as a high-speed troop transport when it was struck by a kamikaze attack, and the crew was told to abandon ship, the team said. 25, 1944.Īfter discovering the Japanese vessels, the survey mission proceeded to nearby Ormoc Bay, where it found the wreckages of the USS Ward and USS Cooper in waters some 250 meters deep. The five were among seven Imperial Japanese Navy vessels that took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait from late Oct. You might find a setting on a digital camera for fireworks in the video mode.Briefing reporters Thursday aboard the research vessel Petrel, docked in the port city of Surigao on the northernmost tip of Mindanao island, the team also presented images of what are believed to be wrecks of the Japanese warships Yamashiro, Fuso, Yamagumo, Asagumo and Michishio, which were found between Nov. Most of the time you'll capture the whole sky unless you know what fireworks will appear and how high they will go. Using a camera allows you to zoom in on parts of the fireworks and move the view to certain parts of the sky.
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Fireshot new arrivals manual#
If the camera has trouble focusing due to the dark conditions then switch to manual focus and focus to infinity but most cameras will stay in focus once they have established the correct focus. There has been some good video recordings using a digital camera. It would be difficult to control a GoPro on your head and you need to know if what your recording is in focus so you need to look in the view finder or screen. Now comes the 'but', it's an action cam and I have no idea if it can film the fireworks (sharp) in the dark.
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The camera looks where I look and does the job by itself. So I got the idea to buy a GoPro (Hero 5), put it on my head and watch the show.
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I do this with my phone camera since it's better than my old digital camera (but still not good enough).īesides that the problem with an handheld camera is that you miss things in the air. I Iike to film fireworkshows around Europe.