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June 8, 2004 - In what has been called the "worst disaster in U.S. naval history," the U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, sinking in 12 minutes, and of the 1,196 men on board, only 316 survived. Two Texas A&M University researchers have located the sub that sank it. William Bryant, professor of oceanography, and Brett Phaneuf, a graduate student in oceanography, located the sub about three weeks ago in waters about 60 miles off the coast of Nagasaki. Their efforts to locate the sub, named the I-58, have been funded by the Discovery...