Divers made an incredible discovery over the weekend: An experimental submarine named the Defender was found at the bottom of Long Island Sound The craft was made in 1907 and sank more than 75 years ago
Connecticut divers made an incredible discovery over the weekend - a submarine was found at the bottom of Long Island Sound."It's been hiding in plain sight all these years," said Shoreline Diving Services Vice President Richard Simon.Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox."My father was a commercial diver, so I've grown up knowing about diving, being involved in diving and just loving shipwrecks and exploration," Simon said.
The Defender is an experimental submarine that was made in 1907. The submarine's inventor was inspired by the pages of"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," a classic Jules Verne novel. "The Defender had wheels, it could drive on the bottom. It had a door you could release divers from," Simon said.Simon, who is a commercial diver from Coventry, assembled a team and set out to find the elusive submarine. After a failed dive Friday, they tried again Sunday.
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