12/10/2020 | Salvage Team Discovers WWI-Era Submarine Off OC Coast
The R-8 was used in 1936 as a target in aerial bomb testing off the coast of Delmarva. Submitted Photo OCEAN CITY — A World War I-era submarine sent to the bottom of the sea in a bombing training mission in the 1930s was recently located on the ocean floor of the coast of Ocean City. Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS) and the crew of researchers on the D/V Tenacious on Thursday announced the discovery of the submarine known simply as R-8 off the coast of Ocean City. The vessel has yet to be dived and visually identified, but based on side-scan sonar, the location of the site and the historical re...
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