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American submarine, lost for over a century, discovered ‘remarkably intact’

A reconstruction made from detailed digital photographs and sonar data shows the U.S. submarine F-1 lying on the seafloor
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)

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.

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