In Popular Culture
- In 1965, Emmons — via stock footage — appeared in Gilligan's Island episode “Forget Me Not”, steaming alongside USS Grayson (DD-435), representing U.S. Navy ships looking for the stranded castaways.
- The wreck of the Emmons was featured as part of the Cities of the Underworld episode Tunnels of Hell. The episode focused on the caves used during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Camera crew and show host also dived on the Emmons wrecksite located off the Okinanwa coast.
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