Wednesday, November 2, 2011

World War II Submarine Found

From the Oct. 28th ABC News-World "Navy investigating possible World War II submarine."

The Australian and New Zealand navies are working in a joint Render Safe operation to rid the southwest Pacific of unexploded World War II ordnance. In Simpson Harbor in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, contact was made with a twenty meter long solid man-made object. The Australian Navy thinks it might be a World War submarine (if it is, it would likely be mini-sub like the ones that attacked Pearl Harbor).

The New Zealand Navy is not sure.

I looked up Simpson Harbor in Wikipedia and found out the harbor is a huge flooded caldera on an ancient volcano. Rabaul, the capital of New Britain, is on its shore. The Japanese had a huge naval base here during World War II and it often came under attack by the Allies. Sixty-five Japanese ships were sunk here.

Wonder Whose Sub It Is? --Cooter

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