How Darkstar divers found Destroyer USS Jacob Jones at 115mThe UK’s Darkstar technical-diving team have discovered the deep-lying wreck of the first US Navy destroyer ever to have been sunk through enemy action, some 65km out from the Scilly Isles. Six divers explored the USS Jacob Jones (DD 61) at a maximum depth of 115m, on 11 August. Eight minutes after the strike, with only four of the rafts launched and two officers and 62 crew still onboard, the Jacob Jones sank. Survivors from the Jacob Jones (Cdr Donald J Robinson / NHHC)“We only did one dive on the Jacob Jones,” said Robinson. Unfortunately, none of them had anything that allowed us to identify them.”The Darkstar divers left the Jacob Jones wreck undisturbed, and have informed the US Department of State of their find.