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As humans move to explore the depths of the ocean, there are more devastating stories of submarines imploding, but what ...
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USS Squalus Submarine Disaster

As the newly-commissioned USS Squalus submarine was sunk 240 feet below the waters near the New Hampshire and Maine coast ...
Submarines appeared on the global stage during World War I, when Germany unleashed a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 to sever supply lines between Great Britain and its allies. In ...
In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “ Kursk ” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled military drill. The K-141 vessel ultimately sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea, ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- What's it like to be in a submersible? One person who knows is underwater cinematographer and producer, Al Giddings. "I was very apprehensive from day one," expressed Giddings when ...
The sinking of the K-278 led to concerns over environmental contamination, as the submarine went down with its nuclear reactor—and two nuclear-armed torpedoes on board.
Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...
The Guardian reported that current legislation "designates HMAS Stirling off Perth and the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide" as a storage site for low- and intermediate-level waste, but the law also ...