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A photograph purporting to show a Russian submarine surfacing off New Jersey actually shows dredging equipment, the Coast Guard says. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
India on Sunday launched the first nuclear-powered submarine built on its soil, asserting itself as a world power by joining just five other countries that can design and construct such vessels.
It could be one of the nation's oldest cold case files: What happened to eight Confederate sailors aboard the H.L. Hunley after it became the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship?
A top Navy official says the service is close to awarding another multibillion-dollar contract to General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman for more Virginia class submarines.
Russian news agencies say authorities have charged a sailor with fatal negligence in the deaths of 20 people aboard a nuclear submarine this month.
A top investigator says a sailor set off the fire safety system on a Russian nuclear submarine last weekend that killed 20 people.
The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday.
Navy tradition suggests that the spirit of a ship's sponsor goes to sea with its crew, and the new USS New Hampshire attack submarine joined the fleet Saturday with its sponsor urging its crews to endure and persevere.
It's long been a mystery why the H.L. Hunley never returned after becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship in 1864, but new research announced Friday may lend credence to one of the theories. Scientists found the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had not set the pump to remove water from the crew compartment, which might indicate it was not being flooded.
The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II.
The Navy says a sailor died in an apparent accident on board a ballistic missile submarine off Oahu over the weekend.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it intercepted a submarine-like vessel carrying 7 tons of cocaine off Central America's coast.
A Costa Rican official says U.S. authorities have intercepted a submarine-like vessel packed with tons of cocaine.
Japan was searching Sunday for an unidentified foreign submarine detected in its territorial waters earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry said.
An underwater archaeologist who claims he found the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley said Monday he will keep fighting for official credit for the discovery, despite a lawsuit over the matter being dismissed.
Iranian state TV says the country has launched production of a domestically built submarine capable of firing missiles and torpedoes.
Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Brazil is seeking to buy military technology from France that could help it become the first country in Latin America to have a nuclear submarine, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Iran claimed Wednesday to have built a small submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the craft had been launched in the Persian Gulf.
A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine collided with a Japanese oil tanker in the Straits of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world's oil supplies travel, officials said.
Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father. The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crewmates were on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II.
Navy brass supports women on submarinesLooks like I retired a couple of years too early....
Russian attack subs patrol off U.S. coastTwo nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling in international waters off the East Coast for several days, in activity reminiscent of the Cold War, officials said Tuesday.
Russian Subs Patrolling Off East Coast of U.S. A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military.
'Action man' Vladimir Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lakeVladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, dived to the bottom of the world's deepest lake aboard a mini-submarine, in a media stunt unusual even by the standards of the Russian "action man".
Watching Whales Watching UsWhales, we now know, teach and learn. They scheme. They cooperate, and they grieve. They recognize themselves and their friends. They know and fight back against their enemies.
Dolphin Inspired Personal SubmarinesStarting at start at $48,000, Innespace Productions have created a series of unique dolphin-inspired submersible boats that can jump, dive and roll like real dolphins and come with an extensive list of options
In possible signal to Iran, Israel sends subs through Suez Canal"After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuvers off the Eilat coast in the Red Sea.
Komsomolets submarine may turn into underwater Chernobyl The most advanced nuclear submarine in the world, the Komsomolets, sank in the neutral waters of the Norwegian Sea 20 years ago. The sub had a nuclear reactor and nuclear warheads on board. They can become the source of a massive radioactive pollution at any moment.
Nuclear sub 'discharge' warningThe naval base at Faslane has suffered a series of safety breaches including radioactive leaks from nuclear-powered submarines, it has been revealed.
Navy skipper loses post after nuke sub crashThe skipper of an American nuclear submarine that collided with another U.S. Navy vessel at the mouth of the Persian Gulf last month has been relieved of command, the Navy announced Tuesday.
U.S. Sees Chinese Military RiseChina is seeking technology and weapons to disrupt the traditional advantages of American forces, and secrecy surrounding its military creates the potential for miscalculation on both sides, according to a Pentagon study released Wednesday. More Articles
US claims ship in China spat was hunting subsThe U.S. Navy ship that got into a scrape with five Chinese vessels last weekend in the South China Sea was looking for threats such as submarines — presumably Chinese — in waters that China claims as its own, defense officials acknowledged Tuesday.
Team Battles Arctic Winter, Hiking 600+ Miles to Measure Melting Ice CapIt could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. More Articles
Earlier This Month British and French Nuclear Missile Submarines *Collided* Under The Atlantic Ocean. BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night. The Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles.
Norway to surface toxic Nazi submarine wreck Norway's government has said it plans to surface a Nazi submarine loaded with mercury that sank off its shores in 1945 that poses an environmental hazard.
Robot sub to find severed undersea internet cableA French crew has begun to repair two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.
Diving and Exploring Titanic's Sister Ship - the BritannicThis is a link to an article that I found on the BBC about the current state of the massive liner Britannic, which was the larger "sister ship" to the Titanic. The Britannic was sunk by either a mine or a German torpedo in World War I off the coast of Greece.
Disaster in Russian submarineAccording to Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the investigation commission, 14 civilians and 6 sailors were killed, while another 22 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity. At the time of the incident 208 people were on board.
Russian navy: sub accident kills more than 20 on Yahoo! NewsNew Russian Nuclear Submarine accident in Pacific Ocean which kills more than 20 crews, circumstance.
Kick-boxing farewell ritual kills Japanese sailorA Japanese sailor dropping out of an elite navy training program died in an unofficial farewell ritual requiring him to fight 15 classmates, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
Russia: sub-launched ballistic missile makes record flight, hitting Pacific targetRussian officials say a submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time. President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the test, part of naval exercises being staged in the northern Barents Sea.
DARPA to spend millions researching flying submarineThe engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are working on an aircraft that's capable of landing on the water and submerging beneath the waves.
Japan hunts mystery submarine intruderJapan's navy has tracked a submarine that intruded into its waters for nearly two hours and then lost track of it without identifying its nationality, a military official said.
Russia launches another ballistic missile, prepares to create sea-based carrier systems - Pravda.RuAdmiral Vyacheslav Popov, the former commander of Russia's Northern Fleet said Monday that the Northern and Pacific Fleets would soon have maritime carrier systems which will include nuclear aircraft carriers.
Scientists examine how Lake Baikal 'eats' oilRussian scientists exploring the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal are studying the processes through which the lake's organisms digest crude oil that seeps from cracks in the bedrock, an expedition member said.
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