Top-secret special-ops submarine from World War II discovered after 20-year search

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The wreck of a British World Conflict II submarine that helped usher within the period of particular navy operations has been discovered off the coast of Greece, the place it sank in 1942.

Veteran Greek diver Kostas Thoctarides introduced in a Fb publish final week that his workforce had found the wreck of HMS Triumph within the Aegean Sea, at an undisclosed location “ten of kilometers” off Cape Sounion and at a depth of about 666 ft (203 meters.) 

The wreck’s closed hatches and retracted periscope point out that the sub was diving when it sank, Thoctarides stated.

The deck gun on the wreck of the HMS Triumph, at a depth of about 666 ft within the Aegean Sea. The sub sank throughout a secret mission in January 1942.  (Picture credit score: Okay. Thoctarides/PlanetBlue.gr)

One of many search workforce members, Rena Giatropoulou Thoctarides, advised Stay Science that the fore part had been badly broken by an explosion that nearly definitely sank the submarine. Nevertheless it wasn’t clear if that explosion was exterior — maybe from a depth cost or naval mine — or inner, which implies it might have been brought on by an explosion by one of many sub’s personal torpedoes.