Post by Administrator on Dec 5, 2013 11:38:44 GMT
Japanese Mega-Submarine From WWII Discovered off Hawaii:
This week, it was announced that a team from the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) recently discovered a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy giant submarine that had been lost since 1946, when it was intentionally sunk by the United States following the vessel’s capture. It was found in some 2,300 feet below the ocean’s surface, off the southwest coast of Oahu. The 400-foot-long submarine, known as the I-400, had the ability to carry three bomber planes and was the largest sub ever constructed until the advent of nuclear-powered subs in the 1960s. The I-400 could travel around the globe one-and-a-half times without refueling, something no other diesel-electric sub has ever been able to do.
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This week, it was announced that a team from the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) recently discovered a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy giant submarine that had been lost since 1946, when it was intentionally sunk by the United States following the vessel’s capture. It was found in some 2,300 feet below the ocean’s surface, off the southwest coast of Oahu. The 400-foot-long submarine, known as the I-400, had the ability to carry three bomber planes and was the largest sub ever constructed until the advent of nuclear-powered subs in the 1960s. The I-400 could travel around the globe one-and-a-half times without refueling, something no other diesel-electric sub has ever been able to do.
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