In early July, 2016, the employees of Fertoing, on board the special purpose vessel Kendrick, carried out complex search and identification works of the destroyer Deyatel’niy which was destroyed in January 1945 during an attack of German submarine U-997 in the Barents Sea. During the search works, the actual location of the destroyer was found which was lying eight hundred meters from the original search point. Within a few days, using a ROV, at the depth of more than 130 meters, wreckage location was studied and detailed inspection of the ship's hull was carried out.
The received data allow saying with high probability that the found sunken vessel is the destroyer Deyatel’niy.