'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.'
Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound.
"A submarine has a very distinct shape," he said. "It needs to be 100 feet long and 13 feet in diameter. So I made a list of everything that was that long and there was one target on that list." "It was legitimately hiding in plain sight," he said. "It's on the charts. It's known about in Long Island Sound, just no one knew what it was."
The submarine, originally named the Lake, was built by millionaire Simon Lake and his Bridgeport-based Lake Torpedo Boat Company in hopes of winning a competition for a U.S. Navy contract, according to NavSource Online, a website dedicated to preserving naval history. But the submarine spent many years unused, docked in New London before eventually being abandoned on a mud flat near Old Saybrook. It was scuttled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1946, but the corps never disclosed where, Simon said.
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