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04-07-10, 01:02 AM

Grounded submarine photographed with sonar

By João Medeiros|01 April 2010

This article was taken from the May issue of Wired magazine.

This eerie wreck image is not computer generated. It's the sonar image of Russian nuclear submarine B-159 (called K-159 before decommissioning), which has been lying 248m down in the Barents Sea, between Norway and Russia, since 2003. The Russian Federation hired Adus, a Scottish company that specialises in high-resolution sonar surveying, to evaluate if it would be possible to recover the wreck.

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Excerpted: read entire article here

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Wxman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Grounded submarine photographed with sonar Grounded submarine photographed with sonar By João Medeiros\|01 April 2010 This article was taken from the May issue of Wired magazine. This eerie wreck image is not computer generated. It's the sonar image of Russian nuclear submarine B-159 (called K-159 before decommissioning), which has been lying 248m down in the Barents Sea, between Norway and Russia, since 2003. The Russian Federation hired Adus, a Scottish company that specialises in high-resolution sonar surveying, to evaluate if it would be possible to recover the wreck. [snip] Excerpted: read entire article here