Microsoft co-founder found the cruiser Indianapolis, sunk by the Japanese, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Fragments of the US Navy cruiser Indianapolis, sunk in 1945 by a Japanese submarine, were found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 5.5 thousand meters. The cruiser was found by a search party of one of the founders of Microsoft, Paul Allen.

To search for Indianapolis, Allen purchased and refitted the research vessel Petrel. It employs devices capable of diving to a depth of up to 6,000 meters.

Searches since 2016 have been conducted in a new area, which was calculated by Navy historian Richard Hulver. The search square was 600,000 square miles (one and a half million square kilometers).

• Indianapolis was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58 on July 30, 1945, when the cruiser completed the transfer of parts of the first atomic bomb "Baby", dropped on Hiroshima. The crew of the cruiser was 1196 people, of which only 316 managed to escape. 22 crew members are still alive.
• Allen's team in 2015 discovered the site of the sinking of the Japanese battleship Musashi.
• In 1975, Allen co-founded Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. He left the company's board of directors in 2000.