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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
Why? No one died when it sank. No one was even on it when it sank. It was scuttled by the USN after the war.
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Because at the depth its at it will just fall apart anyway.It would be a waste of money and sometimes weapons of war once they are no longer useful it is better that they fade away.
The main thing though is that it would be very expensive to even attempt to raise the thing and it structural integrity most likely shot.On top of that similar operations have been attempted in the past at very great cost but with limited results.
Look up Project Azorian some time already mentioned in this thread.It was only a partial success they wanted the entire sub and only where able to get a section of it and it cost a huge mint.The cost simply is not worth the effort in this case several million bucks(perhaps over a billion) just for an old Japanese sub I think not.Azorian cost $3.8 Billion in 2013 dollars and would most assuredly cost more to attempt today.Not to mention that K-129 was well worth try to get to because it had vital information inside it not to mention the value of some engineers looking at what they did pull up.K-129 had on been on the bottom for a few years not 70.The I-400 is interesting I agree but not enough to warrant spending a huge sum of money trying to raise.