‘With help from an underwater robotic explorer, researchers are mapping the submerged wreckage of a massive blimp-like airship that crashed off the California coast more than 70 years ago. The USS Macon, a 235.5 metre (785ft) rigid dirigible three times longer than a Boeing 747, was one of the largest aircraft ever built when it fell into the Pacific about five miles off Big Sur on February 12 1935.’

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