Talk:Hamakaze/@comment-188.29.165.115-20140329022522/@comment-5046483-20140329050206

She wasn't scuttled. Unfortunately when she began to sink, she took over 1,500 sailors, civillian contractors and staff including the captain with her. A lot of the men who had just abandoned ship were sucked back inside her when her open flight deck elevators began to flood as she went down. She went down in over 4,000m (13,000ft) of water over 105km (65 miles) from land. The poor guys didn't stand a chance. Luckily Isokaze and Hamakaze were able to rescue a total of 1,080 survivors including 32 civillians. Not so lucky was that the survivors were locked up on the island of Mitsuko-jima until January 1945 after their rescue to suppress the news of the carrier's loss.

Info from here, also the source I used for the TL.