WWII submarine USS Harder, and its entombed crew of 80 servicemen, has been found in the South China Sea at a depth of 1140 metres (3750 feet). Tiburon Subsea CEO Tim Taylor announced the discovery. It’s the ninth WWII submarine he’s found, which now brings closure to families of 452 servicemen lost in battle. Taylor […]
The Royal Navy is coming under sustained fire after advertising for a rear-Admiral on Linkedin. Normally, naval officers rise through the ranks, but this time it appears that there is no one to step into the role and thus, recruiters are trying to lure a retired officer back into the fold. “It’s unheard of as […]
Three South African navy personnel have died, and a senior officer is in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off deck. The incident occurred while attempting what’s known as a vertical replenishment of supplies (where a helicopter delivers supplies) to the SAS Manthatisi. The submarine was on the ocean surface, […]
Scientists believe they’ve confirmed an urban legend of more than 80 years by ‘finding’ a Royal Navy submarine buried in a town park in Dartmouth, in the English county of Devon. Experts from the University of Winchester used ground penetrating radar to scan the site where the old boat was believed to rest – along […]
According to Reuters, the Colombian Navy has seized 1.8 tonnes of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel in the South Pacific. Admiral Orlando Cubillos told Reuters that people manning the boat jumped into the water when they saw the authorities and fled to a mangrove area, abandoning the semi-submersible loaded with the drugs. The drugs found […]
The Indonesian navy says it is trying to work out how it can salvage the remains of a submarine from the bottom of the Bali Sea and retrieve the bodies of the 53 sailors who died, according to Reuters. The submarine was found broken into at least three parts, four days after it lost contact. […]
Indonesia’s navy is searching for a submarine with 53 people on board which has gone missing during a training exercise 26.5 nautical miles northwest of the island of Bali. The 43-year-old vessel was conducting a torpedo drill on Wednesday but failed to relay the results as expected. A search is under way for the German-made […]
New research, by BAE Systems, has shown that the UK’s Dreadnought submarine programme supports tens of thousands of jobs across the UK. The company says the Dreadnought submarine programme makes a significant contribution to the UK economy, supporting almost 30,000 jobs across the country. While nearly half of these jobs reside in the North West […]
Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Mersey has tracked the movements of a surfaced Russian submarine as it sailed through waters close to the UK over the weekend. The River-class offshore patrol vessel was on watch as the Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine RFS Rostov Na Donu sailed through wintry seas in the North Sea and […]
Florida’s Triton Submarines has been making high-end civilian submarines for more than a decade now, dividing its sales between scientific explorers, commercial and cinematography clients, and ultra-rich superyacht owners looking to spruce up their wet garages with something more exciting than a jet ski. According to News Atlas, the key to Triton’s market dominance has been its mastery of […]
China has broken its record for the deepest manned dive into the world’s oceans, sinking an estimated 10,909 metres (35,790 feet) into the Mariana Trench, state-run news agency Xinhua said. The submersible landed on the seabed at the bottom of the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. The dive beat China’s previous dive into the Mariana […]