Suspected Russian Mini-Submarine Found Off Swedish Coast

[Harley]

Suspected Russian Mini-Submarine Found off Swedish Coast

28 JUL 15
DEFENSETECH



A 66-foot submarine with reported Russian script on the side was discovered by a private company off the coast of Sweden.

Discovered by the company, Ocean X, Swedish authorities are investigating video recorded by Ocean X to determine the submarine’s origin. It’s unclear how long the submarine has been there and old it is.

A diver for Ocean X, Stefan Hogeborn, told Reuter the hull remains “intact” and the hatches remain “closed.”

A submarine expert told Expressen, a Swedish tabloid, he believed the submarine was a Russian “Catfish” which were built in the early 20th century.

Ocean X officials said they will send a team to investigate the wreck further.

Russian aggression in Ukraine and sightings of Russian submarines across the North Sea and Arctic Ocean have worried Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway.

[ThePythonicCow]

Another article on this, from Sweden investigating underwater wreckage as possible Russian submarine (The Guardian):

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Swedish military studying video appearing to show sunken vessel but confusion reigns over whether it is a recent model or one that sank as long ago as 1916

The Swedish military is studying a video taken by shipwreck hunters who say it shows a wrecked submarine, just off the country’s eastern coast, which appears to be Russian.

Ocean X Team, the company behind the discovery, said on its website: “It is unclear how old the submarine is and for how long it has been at the bottom of the sea, but the Cyrillic letters on the hull indicate that it is Russian.”

According to Stefan Hogeborn, a diver from the Ocean X Team company that made the discovery, the vessel remained completely intact with no visible damage to the hull and the hatches closed.

“It is unclear how old the submarine is and how long it has been laying at the sea floor, but the Cyrillic letters on the hull indicate that it is Russian,” he said.

Hogeborn did not given the vessel’s location but according to Expressen tabloid, which published images of the wreck on its website, it was found about 1.5 nautical miles (2.8km) off the east coast of central Sweden.

Ocean X Team said the vessel was around 20 metres (66ft) long and 3.5 metres wide.

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One of the men who discovered the submarine, Dennis Asberg, told the Expressen newspaper it looked modern. But one expert quoted by the paper said he believed it was actually a Russian “Catfish” submarine that sank in 1916.

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