The Lady Lex, the USS Lexington, has been found two miles down at the bottom of the Coral Sea. My great uncle, Oliver Taylor, was on the admiral's staff of the Lexington, and was the last living man on the carrier before it sank.
After the evacuation of almost 3000 sailors (most by jumping into the water), Adm. Aubrey W. Fitch and Captain Frederick Sherman left the burning, sinking carrier on a rope bridge to a destroyer, but the destroyer was crammed with sailors rescued from the sea, and Oliver Taylor was left behind.
A Lexington officer famously said "There she goes. She didn't turn over. She's going down with her head up. Dear old Lex...a lady to the last."
As the Lexington blew up from within (the fires reached the ammo dump), Taylor ran the length of the carrier, dived into water covered with burning oil, and swam a quarter mile through sharks feasting on bodies to an empty lifeboat. When he walked into the Admiral's new office the next day on another ship, Admiral Fitch looked up, said, "Glad you are alive, Taylor. The rest of my staff is dead or wounded, so you are promoted." And he went back to work.
I hope the wreck is left in peace in memory of the 216 sailors still aboard.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/uss-lexington-aircraft-carrier-wreckage-found/index.html