NOAA, U.S. Navy, find 'amazingly intact' WWII-era aircraft carrier off California coast

Sixty-four years after it was scuttled off California's Farallon Islands, the USS Independence has been re-discovered, resting on the seafloor "amazingly intact," according to NOAA scientists. A survey team made up of representatives from NOAA, the U.S. Navy and private industry parties is working on a two-year project to map and study the more than 300 shipwrecks estimated to be lying off California's coast. The Independence is thought to be the deepest shipwreck in the Gulf of the Farallones N...