A Russian submarine had a ‘Crimson Tide’ moment near Cuba
The 1995 movie “Crimson Tide” saw two U.S. Navy officers square off in a battle of wits, gusto and ideology over whether or not the United States and Russia were…
The crazy way subs used to communicate
Britain’s Royal Navy is testing new robotic submarine tech in deep water trials
Not since the year 1066 have the British home islands been successfully invaded by an outside power. One of the reasons for that is the United Kingdom’s unfailing, stout supply…
This WWII sub captain went down with his ship to save his crew
The USS Growler was listing at 50-degrees, its bow bent sharply to the side. Japanese machine gun fire raked the bridge. Two men had already been killed and three more wounded — including the submarine’s captain, Cmdr. Howard Gilmore. …
That time a surfacing Russian sub slammed into an American spy submarine
A submarine surfacing can happen pretty fast. And pretty violently.
Even at its calmest and slowest pace, that’s still almost 9,000 tons of titanium-hulled, nuclear-powered Russian sub coming at you at 8 miles per-hour.
US Coast Guard busts another cocaine-carrying ‘narco sub’
Coast Guard crew members aboard the cutter Valiant intercepted a self-propelled semi-submersible carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean, arresting four suspected smugglers in the process.
The 40-foot vessel, of…