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USS Grunion Iwasaki. He sent them a translation of an article written by the officer who had commanded the merchant ship "Kano Maru". The article described an encounter with a submarine near Kiska Island in the Aleutians about the time the "Grunion" was reported missing. Several years later, John Abele, cofounder of Boston Scientific, met Dr. Robert Ballard, famous for discovering the RMS Titanic's wreckage. Ballard gave him advice on how to locate a shipwreck, and Abele decided to fund an expedition to find the lost submarine "Grunion". In 2006, Williamson Associates, using side-scan sonar, located a promising target at almost at