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CHILE SUB SEEKERS IMPATIENT TO CONFIRM FLACH DISCOVERY

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Navy Commander Patricio Valenzuela and documentary filmmaker Juan Enrique Benitez

Photo and story by Benjamin Witte

http://www.tcgnews.com/santiagotimes/index.php?nav=story&story_id=13654&topic_id=1

(May 6, 2007) Throughout their year-and-a-half-long quest to find the missing Flach, Chile’s long-lost first submarine, documentary filmmaker Juan Enrique Benítez and his collaborators have had to follow just one simple rule: you can look, but you just can’t touch.
Until last [...]

HMS Vandal: Tribute paid to drowned crew of Barrow sub

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Published on 19/05/2007
http://www.arranbanner.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/274/War_dead_on_HMS_Vandal_remembered.html
EX-SUBMARINERS in Scotland have paid their annual tribute to the drowned crew of one of Barrow’s shortest-lived submarines.
Sixty members of the Submariners Association Scottish Branch went to Lochranza to pay homage at the war grave of HMS Vandal, which sank on an exercise in 1943 during the Second World War.
But HMS Vandal [...]