Runaway Mini-sub Comes Home
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Runaway U.S. mini-sub found on Norwegian beach
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Posted: 4:05 PM EDT (2005 GMT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A missing unmanned submarine that eluded the U.S. Navy for a week was found Tuesday by a man strolling along a beach in western Norway.
The 3.5 meter (11-foot) mini-sub, or Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, disappeared April 29 during tests off the port of Kristiansand in southern Norway.
"On Monday, the crew of its mother ship, the minesweeper USS Swift, said that they considered it lost for good," said Cmdr. Thom Knustad, a spokesman for the Norwegian joint command.
The submarine is not remote controlled, but preprogramed before its launch to search for mines and, if necessary, destroy them.
However, it never surfaced, leading the Swift to break off its participation in a military exercise and spend a week searching for it.
The mini-sub turned up about 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the north.
A man going for walk along the coast near Stavanger, on Norway's west coast, spotted a small, torpedo-like object marked "Department of Navy" grounded just off the beach and called the police.
"A police officer went to the scene, found the submarine and pulled it into land," Arvid Jensen, of the Stavanger police, told Norwegian news agency NTB.
Norwegians had been asked to be on the lookout for the mini-sub, since the U.S. Navy said it could surface anywhere.
Knustad said by telephone that a small Norwegian Navy boat was immediately dispatched to the scene to recover the submarine so it could be returned to the Americans.
Runaway U.S. mini-sub found on Norwegian beach
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Posted: 4:05 PM EDT (2005 GMT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A missing unmanned submarine that eluded the U.S. Navy for a week was found Tuesday by a man strolling along a beach in western Norway.
The 3.5 meter (11-foot) mini-sub, or Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, disappeared April 29 during tests off the port of Kristiansand in southern Norway.
"On Monday, the crew of its mother ship, the minesweeper USS Swift, said that they considered it lost for good," said Cmdr. Thom Knustad, a spokesman for the Norwegian joint command.
The submarine is not remote controlled, but preprogramed before its launch to search for mines and, if necessary, destroy them.
However, it never surfaced, leading the Swift to break off its participation in a military exercise and spend a week searching for it.
The mini-sub turned up about 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the north.
A man going for walk along the coast near Stavanger, on Norway's west coast, spotted a small, torpedo-like object marked "Department of Navy" grounded just off the beach and called the police.
"A police officer went to the scene, found the submarine and pulled it into land," Arvid Jensen, of the Stavanger police, told Norwegian news agency NTB.
Norwegians had been asked to be on the lookout for the mini-sub, since the U.S. Navy said it could surface anywhere.
Knustad said by telephone that a small Norwegian Navy boat was immediately dispatched to the scene to recover the submarine so it could be returned to the Americans.
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