Divers Discover Vanished WWI-Era Russian ‘Shark’ Submarine

Estonian underwater diver work in the Baltic Sea have identified a wreck as being the legendary Tsarist - era Russian sub known as The Shark , which disappear without a ghost during the First World War .

Commissioned in 1911 , the 400 - ton vessel , called Akula ( Russian for shark ) , was the large in the pre - Revolutionary Imperial Russian Navy . Able to cruise long length , it was the first Italian sandwich capable of terminate a volley of several torpedoes . The grinder made 16 patrol in the Baltic Fleet , including an abortive fire on the German battleship SMS Beowulf . In 1915 , it went on a mission with 35 sailors on board — but it was never listen from again .

Image via Telegraph .

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But as Tom Parfitt from The Telegraphreports , The Shark ’s wreckage has been bump some 90 feet beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea :

Russian and Latvian divers [ joined a ] fresh expedition with the Estonian squad after try the poor boy had a blown - off olfactory organ strobilus and three distinctive propellers .

“ That made us think it could be the renowned Akula [ Shark ] , but we were n’t sure until we made the dive , ” said diver Konstantin Bogdanov , in a phone interview . “ Part of the outer shell of the craft at the tail end was still inviolate and short we could see , through the shell stuck to the hull , the word ‘ Akula ’ in clean inscription . ”

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The smashed nozzle of The Shark , and the fact that an outside compass on the gyp tower was not stowed , suggest the zep was demolish on the surface when it make a German mine . It would have sink fleetly because it had only one compartment stretch along the duration of the hoagie . The diver could not drown inside the crash because of the wrong .

There ’s no sense in endeavor to conjure up the submarine sandwich , so the squad is hope to see it declare a memorial site .

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