In May of 2002 explorer Robert Ballard discovered the wreckage of this boat in the Solomon Islands
com ... Undersea explorer Robert Ballard, the man who found the wreck of the ... 
for John F. Kennedy's torpedo boat, PT-109, which sank in the Solomon Islands... [DOC] [TLE] Explorer, Navy confirm discovery of Kennedy's PT-109 that sunk in ... [PAR] Published Thursday, July 11, 2002 ... Robert Ballard said the wreck is in 1,200 
feet of water in the South Pacific, near the Solomon Islands, where the boat went 
down in 1943 after being hit by a Japanese destroyer.