Dive vessel discovers submarine off the coast of Maryland, Virginia
By FOX 5 DC Digital Team
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A submarine believed to be R-8 discovered off the Delmarva Peninsula. (Photo: AWS)
The company, Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS), says the vessel has yet to be dived and visually identified, but based on side scan sonar data, the location and the historical record, the team firmly believes it to be the wreckage of the R-8 (S.S. 85), an American submarine dispatched by experimental aerial bomb testing in 1936. The R-8 is one of few American submarines resting in diveable East Coast waters that had yet to be located.