Thought this was interesting enough to post up here for those of you who may have missed it:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/lost.sub.ap/index.html
Thats cool. Anybody know of a website with pics and or line drawings of the Lagarto. And what exactly is a Lagarto? I thought US subs were named after fish or sea creatures?
Okay, I found this site. http://www.dbfnetwork.info/lagarto/ Still doesn’t explain what a Lagarto is though.
Try this link:
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l1/lagarto.htm
and an explanation of lizardfish:
http://www.ccet.ua.edu/expedition/lizardfish.htm
According to Wikipedia the USS Lagarto was found just over a year ago by a British wreck diver Jamie MacLeod, but apparently that isn’t worth a mention in the news.
Actually, it is mentioned in the article, and was also on CNN last year, but the absolute identity of the ship had to be confirmed by the Naval Authorities prior to notifying the next of kin. Up until items that definitely identified it as the Lagarto, it could only be classified as a “possible”. Quite a lot of sunken United States Navy subs out there, you know.
Brave s.o.b.'s…I can’t imagine how tough of an underwater war that must have been.
greg
My apologies, but I meant the diver’s name.
I hope that I don’t come across as being unappreciative of the efforts that the lost submariners played in the war! I cannot think of a more terrifying way of fighting a war than being inside a can deep beneath the surface of the water. They have my respect and admiration.
Lagarto means lizard in spanish. I’m pretty sure it is a type of fish in Central America.
Positive identification is one thing the Navy, especially, is adamant about, but you have to say that all of the armed services go to extraordinary lengths to make a final determination any time new evidence, a crash site or a body turns up (witness the frozen airman in the Sierra Nevada last year) before notifying the next of kin.
They will talk about it in some detail on ABC Nightly News on 6-27