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Video: Divers find submarine wreckage in Long Island Sound

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Defender, a 92-foot-long (28-meter-long) boat, was found Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon. The submarine, originally named the Lake, was built by millionaire Simon Lake and his Bridgeport-based Lake Torpedo Boat Company. It was experimental vessel with wheels to move along the sea bottom and a door that allowed divers to be released underwater.

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USA Today

Divers discover sunken 100-year-old submarine at the bottom of Long Island Sound

A team of divers found the submarine more than 150 feet beneath the water's surface in the Long Island Sound.

1 year ago·United States

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CBS News

Divers find wreckage of century-old submarine "hiding in plain sight" in Long Island Sound

The well-known sub and was visited by Amelia Earhart in 1929.

1 year ago

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The Epoch Times

Wreckage of Submarine Found by Divers in Long Island Sound

HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound. The Defender, a 92-foot-long boat, was found Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut. Simon said he had been interested in the story of the Defender for years. He spent months going over known sonar and underwater mapping surveys of the bottom of …

1 year ago·New York, United States

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Arab News

Wreckage of submarine found by divers in Long Island Sound

HARTFORD, United States: Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound.The Defender, a 92-foot-long (28-meter-long) boat, was found Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut.Simon said he had been interested in the story of the Defender for

1 year ago·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Video: Divers find submarine wreckage in Long Island Sound

Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound.

1 year ago·Sacramento, United States

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abc 7 NY

CT divers find wreckage of 'Defender', 92-foot submarine from 1907, in Long Island Sound - ABC7 New York

"It was legitimately hiding in plain sight," diver Richard Simon said. "It's on the charts. It's known about in Long Island Sound, just no one knew what it was."

1 year ago·New York, United States

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