International Business News - Submarine http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Russian news agencies say authorities have charged a sailor with fatal negligence in the deaths of 20 people aboard a nuclear submarine this month. The state-run RIA-Novosti news agency says Dmitry Grobov faces up to five years in prison if convicted. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/russian-sailor-charged-in-submarine-tragedy.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:40:37 EST A top investigator says a sailor set off the fire safety system on a Russian nuclear submarine last weekend that killed 20 people. Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin says officials have opened a manslaughter investigation into the actions of the unnamed sailor, who he says confessed to the act. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/russia-submarine-tragedy-caused-by-sailor.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:01:22 EST Russia's top military officer has been quoted as saying the navy will soon commission the nuclear submarine that suffered a deadly accident during a sea trial. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/russian-navy-accident-submarine-to-join-navy-soon.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:05:33 EST Dozens of crewmen were fast asleep on a nuclear submarine when freezing Freon gas poured over them from a firefighting system, survivors said Tuesday in the first eyewitness accounts of the Russian submarine accident that killed 20 people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/russian-sub-survivors-freon-killed-as-crew-slept.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:17:26 EST A manufacturing flaw, a misplaced cable, even a cigarette. Those are some of the scenarios put forward by navy veterans and experts as investigators try to determine what activated a firefighting system aboard a new Russian nuclear submarine beneath the Sea of Japan, and why 20 people were killed. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172179-russia-submarine.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/accident-on-russian-nuclear-sub-suffocates-20.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/accident-on-russian-nuclear-sub-suffocates-20.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:10:58 EST The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/171950-russia-submarine.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/russian-navy-sub-accident-kills-more-than-20.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/russian-navy-sub-accident-kills-more-than-20.htm Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:10:41 EST An accident aboard a nuclear-powered Russian navy submarine doing a test run in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday killed more than 20 people, the navy said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081108/reports-russian-sub-accident-kills-more-than-20.htm Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:07:12 EST Navy tradition suggests that the spirit of a ship's sponsor goes to sea with its crew, and the new USS New Hampshire attack submarine joined the fleet Saturday with its sponsor urging its crews to endure and persevere. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/159607-newest-submarine.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/new-navy-sub-sponsored-by-widow-of-9-11-co-pilot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/new-navy-sub-sponsored-by-widow-of-9-11-co-pilot.htm Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:30:35 EDT It's long been a mystery why the H.L. Hunley never returned after becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship in 1864, but new research announced Friday may lend credence to one of the theories. Scientists found the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had not set the pump to remove water from the crew compartment, which might indicate it was not being flooded. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/154832-confederate-submarine.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/scientists-have-new-clue-to-mystery-of-sunken-sub.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/scientists-have-new-clue-to-mystery-of-sunken-sub.htm Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:02:40 EDT The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/navy-confirms-lost-wwii-sub-has-been-found.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:45:40 EDT The Navy says a sailor died in an apparent accident on board a ballistic missile submarine off Oahu over the weekend. Spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Benham says the accident on the Bangor, Wash.-based USS Nebraska didn't affect the ship and no one else was injured. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/navy-submarine-sailor-dies-in-accident-off-hawaii.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:26:35 EDT The U.S. Coast Guard says it intercepted a submarine-like vessel carrying 7 tons of cocaine off Central America's coast. The Coast Guard says a U.S. Navy aircraft spotted the 60-foot vessel Wednesday about 400 miles south of the Mexico-Guatemala border. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080920/us-intercepts-drug-ladden-sub-off-central-america.htm Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:41:21 EDT A Costa Rican official says U.S. authorities have intercepted a submarine-like vessel packed with tons of cocaine. Security Minister Janina del Vecchio said in a statement Tuesday that the 70-foot (20-meter) vessel was intercepted by the U.S. Navy in international waters near Costa Rica. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/us-navy-seizes-cocaine-laden-sub-off-costa-rica.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:16:28 EDT Japan was searching Sunday for an unidentified foreign submarine detected in its territorial waters earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry said. The Aegis destroyer Atago of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force spotted what it determined to be a periscope of an unknown submarine between Kyushu and Shikoku islands in western Japan, the ministry said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080914/unidentified-foreign-submarine-spotted-near-japan.htm Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:10:21 EDT An underwater archaeologist who claims he found the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley said Monday he will keep fighting for official credit for the discovery, despite a lawsuit over the matter being dismissed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/legal-setback-for-man-who-claims-he-found-hunley.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:03:02 EDT Iranian state TV says the country has launched production of a domestically built submarine capable of firing missiles and torpedoes. Defense Minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar inaugurated a production line Monday for the mid-sized sub, named Ghaem. The TV quotes him as saying Iran has made huge investments to become self-sufficient and equip its armed forces with modern weapons. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/iran-kicks-off-production-of-locally-built-sub.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:13:13 EDT Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew. Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/92681-mexico-submarine-seized.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/mexico-seizes-suspected-drug-submarine.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/mexico-seizes-suspected-drug-submarine.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:18:27 EDT The Mexican navy seized a homemade submarine off the Pacific coast Wednesday with a suspected drug shipment on board. Similar vessels have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/mexico-seizes-suspected-drug-submarine.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:25 EDT