pampanito, a relic of a war some 60 years gone.today she is a fisherman wafer's tourist attraction, one of a handful of submarines preserved from world war ii, but there will always been some maritime sense of mystery to the submarine, men who take her down to wage war beneath the ocean's waves. >> it had to be a little crazy to begin with, because who would want to live in a subhuman situation that you lived in a submarine? because it's miserable living. >> reporter: in september of 1944, the pampanito with a crew of 89 set sail on its third war patrol and this time they were enroute to the china seas between the philippines and formossa and and their mission was to attack japanese operations anywhere and everywhere the pampanito encounters a japanese convoy of 12 ships. >> unknown to the submarines athe time, two of these ships were carrying british and australian prisoners of war. >> reporter: more than 2000pows went into the water. 1500 were never accounted, nor. 650 were picked up by the japanese and reshipped to labor camps a