Often tales narrated by our elders are put down as exaggerated retelling of an event. On Sunday, a fisherman-turned-scuba driver discovered otherwise.

Chandru Devadass was out for his usual scuba diving session when he came across what resembled the wreckage of a fighter jet.

Ever since his childhood, Chandru had been hearing stories from his grandfather about how he had saved a pilot once from drowning in the Bay of Bengal.

According to his grandfather’s account, the pilot had crashed into the ocean near their residence at East Coast Road in Chennai.

On Sunday, 55 years after the elderly man claimed to have played a part in the rescue operation, his grandson discovered wreck 40 feet underwater which resembled an Indian Navy Hawker Sea Hawk fighter jet.

The said jet was a part of INS Vikrant, during the vessel’s stay in Tamil Nadu in the 1960s.

The discovery was made off the Neelankarai coast in south Chennai, where the jet had sunk in 1964.

According to reports, Chandru was aided by three others, who were identified as S.S.B. Aravind Tharunsri, Thimoth and Arun.

A video of the operation was shot too.

According to the clip, it showed a diver touching down on the wreck, which looked intact at the bottom of the sea.