[rjsimmon]

The Musashi receiving one of its many tax-payer funded gifts, provided by the peace-loving people of these United States.

[bus man]

I realize that we were fighting a war at the time, so we had to sink the enemy's combatant ships. But in the hindsight of history, it's a true shame that the Musashi (or her sister, the Yamato) couldn't have been saved and preserved as a museum. Or, failing that, I wish we would have preserved the Nagato (Japan's sole surviving battleship) or raised the Haruna (left half-sunk in a shallow harbor) and preserved her.

[Cry if I Wanna]

Dozens of Japanese warships that were sunk during World War II have since been found in the Philippines.

What's the point of this? Sunken warships are cemeteries. There are well over 100 U.S. Navy ships on the bottom of the Pacific that were sunk by the Japanese. Let them all be.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Actually only two Mushashi and Yamato sister ships

Leyte Gulf was a major screw up by Halsey who got fooled by the Japanese

[bus man]

I'm not hugely impressed with the Manila Standard Today's commitment to factual accuracy:

Allen posted photos and video online of parts of what he said was the battleship Musashi, found by his M/Y Octopus exploration vessel one kilometer (1.6 miles) deep on the floor of the Sibuyan Sea.

1.6 kilometers = 1 mile, not the other way around.

It also showed the space on the bow for the Japanese empire’s Chrysanthemum seal.

This is a unique feature of the three biggest warships that Japan built during World War II, according to Kazushige Todaka, director of the Kure Maritime Museum in Japan.

Not unique. All IJN warships had the Chrysanthemum seal affixed to their bows. I must assume that Mr. Todaka's comment must have been misreported in some way, as I would expect someone in his position to know this.

The Musashi was one of a trio of vessels built by Japan during the war that, at 263 metres (863 feet) each, were its biggest battleships ever.

Two of the three ships were built as battleships. The third, Shinano, was originally intended to join them but was instead completed as an aircraft carrier.

[sasportas]

American warplanes sank the Musashi on October 24, 1944, at the height of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, regarded as the largest naval encounter of the war in which US and Australian forces defeated the Japanese.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the Australian Navy (nor the British Navy for that matter) had anything to do with the sinking of the Musashi... a US Navy vs Japanese Navy event.

[exit82]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFG7Oi7roes

Short video of what was found.