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British unmanned sub used to clear mines

An unmanned submarine which detects and destroys unexploded mines has been unveiled in Hampshire. The Talisman, which is size of a small family car, was built in Waterlooville by BAE Systems.  Read More →

The ghost of Scapa Flow

SIXTY-seven years after she rolled over and sank in Scapa Flow, underwater archaeological experts have produced the most detailed sonar images of stricken giant HMS Royal Oak – images the ordinary camera could never capture.  Read More →

Midget sub discovery stirs ghosts of the past

KAZUTOMO BAN, 74, a retired doctor, remembers going to the train station with his mother to see his brother, Sub-Lieutenant Katsuhisa Ban, off to war in 1941. It was a scene being repeated all over Japan, but the older brother, from a proud Imperial Navy family, already knew he would never return.  Read More →

Plea to let submariners be

THE brother of a Japanese submariner yesterday urged that a World War II midget sub found off Sydney’s northern beaches be left untouched.  Read More →

British Government prohibits salvage of “human torpedoes”

Phuket – Phuket will not allow a private marine-supply company to salvage two British “human torpedoes” from their resting place at the bottom of the ocean.  Read More →

U.S. WWII sub appears to have been found

HONOLULU, USA – For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father. The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crewmates were on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II.  Read More →

Secret spy diver report revealed

He was a war hero – but his family say he was abandoned by his country and left to die in the murky waters of Portsmouth Harbour.  Read More →

‘Oriskany Carrier reef’ to buoy local economy

Hundreds looked on from the bows of sea vessels as thousands more tuned in online and on television to watch the “Mighty O” make its final descent into the emerald depths of the Gulf of Mexico.  Read More →

Cognition research focuses on the tongue

PENSACOLA, Florida, USA — In their quest to create the superwarrior of the future, some military researchers aren’t focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They’re looking at tongues.  Read More →

US Navy explosives experts ready to sink the Oriskany

March Madness was last month. But a group of Navy explosives experts are just now cooking up their own betting pool.  Read More →