{"id":15534,"date":"2012-06-17T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15534"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:35:58","slug":"royal-navy-submarine-wreck-discovered-in-the-dardanelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/royal-navy-submarine-wreck-discovered-in-the-dardanelles\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy submarine wreck discovered in the Dardanelles"},"content":{"rendered":"

What appears to be the wreck of the E14<\/a> has been located just 800 feet offshore in the Straits of the Dardanelles:<\/p>\n

Its precise location in the eastern Mediterranean remained a mystery until this month when a Turkish marine engineer and a diver detected it on the seabed off the town of Kumkale – just 800ft from the beach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The wreck was discovered by marine expert Sel\u00e7uk Kolay and film-making diver Savas Karakas, who had spent three years trying to find it.<\/p>\n

After studying documents at the national Archives in Kew, west London, and surveying Turkish defences, they scanned an unusual object from a boat on the surface.<\/p>\n

But they could not establish what it was because it was near the mouth of the straits — a sensitive military area where diving was forbidden.<\/p>\n

It took two years to get permission from the military before their team were able to dive to the wreck and confirm it was the E14 earlier this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What appears to be the wreck of the E14 has been located just 800 feet offshore in the Straits of the Dardanelles: Its precise location in the eastern Mediterranean remained a mystery until this month when a Turkish marine engineer and a diver detected it on the seabed off the town of Kumkale – just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,370,5,246],"tags":[1221,30,364,249],"class_list":["post-15534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-ww1","tag-mediterraneansea","tag-navy","tag-submarine","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-42y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44638,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15534\/revisions\/44638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}