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Sweden: We'll Force Mystery Sub to Surface

But finding it won't be easy, 'rusty' military admits

(Newser) - Sweden is continuing to scour its waters for a foreign vessel suspected to be a Russian submarine and says that if it has to, it will use weapons to force it to the surface. The main point of the operation, which is now in its sixth day, "is to...

Sweden Steps Up Hunt for Mystery Sub

Sightings of suspected foreign vessel probed

(Newser) - The Swedish military has stepped up its hunt for what is widely believed to be a Russian submarine lurking somewhere in the waters around Stockholm, but officials remain cagey about just what it is they're looking for. "There is no submarine hunt underway, there is an ongoing intelligence...

Sweden Searches for Mystery Sub, Divers

Russian intrusion suspected

(Newser) - The Swedish military spent the weekend scouring coastal waters for what it says was "foreign underwater activity" detected in "an area that is of interest to a foreign power." The military didn't name Russia as the possible source of the activity, but a Swedish newspaper says...

Mystery of Confederate Sub Gets Chipped Away

Cleaning process could reveal why it sank

(Newser) - A century and a half after a legendary Confederate submarine mysteriously sank, conservationists in Charleston, SC, are still working to figure out why. Their latest step could be key: Experts yesterday placed the 40-foot HL Hunley in a solution that's 1% sodium hydroxide and 99% water, the Post and ...

How Howard Hughes Helped CIA Hunt a Sunken Sub

The public believed he was crazy enough to do it

(Newser) - Howard Hughes: billionaire, aviator, engineer … and CIA asset? Yep. Hughes once provided the necessary cover for a secret operation codenamed Project AZORIAN, in which the CIA tried to retrieve a Soviet sub from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean without anyone being the wiser, the Houston Chronicle reports. The...

Confederate Sub Still a Mystery: Why Did It Sink?
 Confederate Sub 
 Still a Mystery: 
 Why Did It Sink? 
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Feb 22, 2014 7:34 AM CST

Confederate Sub Still a Mystery: Why Did It Sink?

Scientists can't say what caused HL Hunley to go under

(Newser) - A revered Confederate submarine was recently commemorated by military reenactors in Charleston, South Carolina, but a key mystery still hung in the air, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The HL Hunley made history on February 17, 1864, when it became the first sub to ever sink an enemy ship—in...

Lost WW2 Mega-Sub Found Off Hawaii

 Lost WWII Mega-Sub 
 Found Off Hawaii 
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Dec 8, 2013 12:03 PM CST

Lost WWII Mega-Sub Found Off Hawaii

Navy sunk giant Japanese sub in 1946

(Newser) - A massive prize for marine archeologists: The wreck of a colossal aircraft-carrier submarine the Japanese built to attack the Panama Canal has been found under 2,300 feet of water off the coast of Hawaii. The I-400, part of a class of the biggest and most advanced submarines built during...

3 Badly Burned Bodies Recovered From Sub

Survivors unlikely: Indian Navy rep

(Newser) - Indian navy divers today recovered three severely burned bodies of sailors who had been trapped inside a submarine damaged by twin explosions, a navy spokesman said. He added that it was doubtful that any of the other 15 sailors aboard survived. "The bodies are severely disfigured and not identifiable...

18 Feared Dead as Indian Sub Explodes, Sinks

Submarine had recently been overhauled by Russia

(Newser) - Eighteen Indian troops are feared dead after a submarine explosion at a dockyard in Mumbai, NDTV.com reports. The troops were aboard the diesel-powered INS Sindhurakshak, whose torpedoes and missiles reportedly went off in the disaster. India's defense minister has confirmed at least some deaths, the AP notes. It...

James Cameron Donates Historic Sub to Researchers

Still, 'I'd like to go dive the sub again'

(Newser) - Science is getting an anniversary present from James Cameron. It's been a year since the director became the first person to reach the ocean's deepest spot alone. Now, he's giving the sub that made the Mariana Trench journey to the renowned Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,...

Brits Planned Ships Made of Ice During WWII

And New Zealand tested underwater 'Tsunami Bombs'

(Newser) - Winston Churchill was so afraid of Nazi submarines targeting supply ships during WWII that he flirted with building aircraft carriers out of sheer ice, New Scientist reports. Knowing Britain could starve without US supplies, he approved a test project aimed at delivering 2,000-foot-long ice ships with 40-foot hulls that...

Navy Ship, Sub Collide Off Fla. Coast

USS Montpelier hit by Navy cruiser as it was ascending

(Newser) - A nuclear-powered submarine belonging to the US Navy chose the wrong moment to stick its head up yesterday: The USS Montpelier was apparently ascending to periscope depth in waters off the coast of Jacksonville, reports the Navy Times , when it collided with the USS San Jacinto, an Aegis class Navy...

German WWII Sub Found Off Nantucket

Divers finally locate it on the ocean floor

(Newser) - The ocean floor off Massachusetts' Nantucket Island has finally yielded a 70-year-old secret: the location of a sunken German sub from World War II. The U-550, which had wreaked havoc along the East Coast, went down in April 1944 in a battle with US ships, but researchers had been unable...

Navy: Worker Set $400M Sub Fire to Get Out of Work

Casey James Fury admits to setting 2 fires

(Newser) - That fire on the USS Miami that caused $400 million in damage in May? Turns out it may not have been caused by a vacuum after all. Navy investigators say civilian laborer Casey James Fury actually set the fire ... because he wanted to leave work early. Fury now faces two...

Iran: We're Building a Nuclear Sub

Project can be used to justify nuclear enrichment

(Newser) - Iran says it has begun building a nuclear submarine—a move which conveniently gives it an excuse to enrich uranium to above weapons grade. An Iranian rear admiral announced the project in Iran's state-run Fars News Agency yesterday, and went out of his way to remind reporters that powering...

Nuke Sub's $400M Fire Blamed on ... Vacuum

Fire affected forward section of attack sub

(Newser) - The fire that caused $400 million in damage to a US nuclear submarine last month may have been caused by no greater a menace than a vacuum cleaner. That is the preliminary result of a naval investigation of the May 24 fire, which occurred while the USS Miami was in...

James Cameron's Sub Sprung Leak

Director: I didn't find anything 'interesting'

(Newser) - James Cameron's trip to the world's deepest spot sounds a wee bit like something of a disappointment. The six hours he intended to spend at the bottom of the sea—filming and gathering geology samples—was cut in half when hydraulic fluid started leaking in his submersible....

The New Yachts: Private Submarines
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 Private Submarines 
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Mar 18, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

The New Yachts: Private Submarines

Lightweight vehicles will set you back about $2M

(Newser) - These days, anyone can experience the thrill of a submarine ride—provided they've got $2 million to spare. Several companies have sprung up selling lightweight, private submarines to the wealthy: There's the Deepflight Super Falcon, built in California by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, for $1.7 million, or the...

Russia Dodged Nuclear Disaster in December

Submarine fire almost triggered biggest accident since Chernobyl

(Newser) - When a Russian submarine caught fire in December, officials said its nuclear weapons had been removed long before the fire—but now, Russian navy insiders tell a magazine that wasn't the case. In fact, during the fire, the Yekaterinburg submarine had 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles on board, and each...

US Team Finds Sunken WWII Sub

HMS Olympus found on sea floor near Malta

(Newser) - The watery grave of scores of British servicemen has been found nearly 70 years after their submarine was sunk by a mine off the coast of Malta. A team from the American marine archaeology group Aurora Trust used a remotely operated vehicle to find the HMS Olympus on the floor...

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