Australia Finds Wreck of World War I Submarine, Solving a 103-Year Enigma
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Australia Finds Wreck of World War I Submarine, Solving a 103-Year Enigma
The discovery was made by a survey ship, the Fugro Equator,
that was used in another seemingly impossible endeavor: the search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The vessel, lost off Papua New Guinea in September 1914, barely seven months after being commissioned for service,
disappeared with 35 crew members during operations to capture the German Pacific colonies in World War I.
Nobody knows what caused the AE1 to sink in 1914 — it had not been under attack at the time — though
theories include an explosion of one of its torpedoes or a failure of a high-pressure air cylinder.
The discovery was made by a survey ship, the Fugro Equator,
that was used in another seemingly impossible endeavor: the search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The vessel, lost off Papua New Guinea in September 1914, barely seven months after being commissioned for service,
disappeared with 35 crew members during operations to capture the German Pacific colonies in World War I.
Nobody knows what caused the AE1 to sink in 1914 — it had not been under attack at the time — though
theories include an explosion of one of its torpedoes or a failure of a high-pressure air cylinder.