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Tom Metcalfe

Top-secret special-ops submarine from World War II discovered after 20-year search

We see an underwater wreck of a submarine. The hatch is closed and sea life is growing on the metal of the sub.

The wreck of a British World War II submarine that helped usher in the era of special military operations has been found off the coast of Greece, where it sank in 1942.

Veteran Greek diver Kostas Thoctarides announced in a Facebook post last week that his team had discovered the wreck of HMS Triumph in the Aegean Sea, at an undisclosed location "ten of kilometers" off Cape Sounion and at a depth of about 666 feet (203 meters.) 

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