Bronze Bell Recovered from World War II Submarine off Oahu Coast
![Manipulator arm of HURL’s submersible places the I-400 bell into a collection basket. (photo credit:HURL/UH) Bronze Bell Recovered from World War II Submarine off Oahu Coast](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/image18-03-2016-10.08.39.jpg)
During a test dive last week, the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) recovered the bronze bell from the I-400 – a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy mega-submarine, lost since 1946 when it was intentionally sunk by U.S. forces after its capture. Longer than a football field at 400 feet, the I-400 was known as […]