While on a routine dive, owner of Emerald Charters Randy Jordan was observing the fish and sand of the waters off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, when he came upon the remains of an intact aircraft mostly buried on the ocean floor.

According to the Palm Beach Post, experts have concluded the plane is a WWII-era Curtiss Helldiver SB2C.

"It's a very rare airplane," said Jordan. "There may be only one flying now."

Kevin Knebel, a local WWII aircraft expert, stated the discovery may be the first-ever Helldiver find off the coast of Florida, even though "planes are scattered up and down" the state's coastline.

Since the discovery, dive teams have only been down to the aircraft once, but more missions to gather information about the downed jet and explore its mysteries are expected to come in the near future.

According to The Associated Press, the last Helldiver to be found underwater was in January 2010 off the coast of Hawaii. Jordan says future explorations of the craft must operate cautiously, as the plane potentially still has live ammunition or human remains inside its fuselage.

The coming year may be one of the best opportunities to find stable work in Snohomish County, Washington, as the region's aerospace industry is on the verge of flying even higher.

According to the Snohomish County Business Journal, all four of Boeing's Everett, Washington-built airliners are posting exceptional sales, and the company is also expecting to increase production rates of other models in 2012.

This increase equates to about 650 aerospace suppliers in the state needing more workers to keep up with the orders, with about 200 of these in Snohomish County.

In 2011, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Co. hired more than 11,000 new workers despite a tepid economy, with the bulk of them employed at the Everett assembly plant.

A separate article in the Journal stated that the aerospace sector was leading the county's job recovery. In the latest Snohomish County Labor Market Update for October 2011, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.7 percent, compared to 10.1 percent just one year earlier.

In the past year, the manufacturing industries experienced the strongest growth, with aerospace products and parts showing especially large expansion.