Underwater mystery: Did diver find Navy plane that crashed off coast in 1943?
Witnesses saw the Navy SBD Dauntless spin to the right, then to the left, and then hit the water. The pilot and radioman were killed.
By John Wilkens
June 28, 2020
6 AM
Tyler Stalter looked at the sonar map of the ocean floor off Pacific Beach and saw an unusual rectangular, dark spot. Something’s there, he thought. Maybe a barge.
The 34-year-old firefighter likes to scuba dive when he’s off work, and when he dives he likes to explore wrecks. He’s been down to see the Monitor, a Civil War ironclad that sank in a storm of Cape Hatteras, N.C., in 1863. He’s dived the Andrea Doria, an Italian liner that collided with another ship off Nantucket and sank in 1956, killing 50 people.
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