Fisherman Discovers Soviet-Era Submarine in Piasa Creek (Illinois)

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5 points·rmason··5 comments

Probably someone bought one. They are littered all over the world. The Finnish ex president's son in law bought one and it sank while being towed to be a tourist attraction. Another was sold to a Canadian business man and towed to USA, also used as a movie prop. The 90's were a crazy time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-77

What makes this interesting is that Piasa Creek feeds into the Mississippi River. There may be a logical explanation for it but what if a Soviet sub merely snuck up the Mississippi and got stuck? No less improbable than Project Azorian where the CIA used Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer to recover a sunken Soviet submarine.

It's amazing how many wonderous discoveries are published on the first day of the fourth month of the year.

It is indeed wondrous to discover a submarine able to navigate the locks and dams of the Mississippi River unnoticed and then lie in wait at the bottom of a muddy creek only to be pulled to the surface by a fisherman in a kayak.

I really wish they had published the brand of fishing line he used, because mine always breaks when I try to pull up anything heavier than a submerged tire or shopping cart.

PS - there is a submerged submarine, whereabouts unknown, in Illinois: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UC-97

"Soviet-Era" comprises all the years between 1923 and 1991.

Lots of submarines, all over the world, were made during those years.

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