A reconstruction made from detailed digital photographs and sonar data shows the U.S. submarine F-1 lying on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego. (Image credit: Image by Zoe Daheron, © Woods Hole Oceanographic)
By Tom Metcalfe
A submarine that sank over 100 years ago during WWI has been surveyed off the coast of San Diego.
Researchers have located the wrecks of two long-lost military vehicles on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego: an American submarine that sank during a training accident in 1917, and a U.S. Navy training aircraft that crashed nearby in 1950.
The USS F-1 submarine sank in seconds after it was badly damaged in a collision with another U.S. Navy submarine. Nineteen of its crew drowned in the accident, and three were rescued by the other sub.
The discovery, made by an expedition to the site earlier this year by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the U.S. Navy, was the first time the sub wreck had been located and surveyed since the sinking.
Read the full article on Live Science:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/american-submarine-lost-for-over-a-century-discovered-remarkably-intact-off-the-coast-of-san-diego
