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4 Underwater Vehicles Go Missing

June 10 2010

USA

The U.S. Navy continues to search for four unmanned underwater vehicles that were lost during a training mission on Sunday in the Thimble Shoals Channel in Virginia, reports the Virginian-Pilot (Hampton Roads, Va.).

The Navy, Coast Guard and local authorities have been looking since then for the missing vehicles.

Sailors lost communication with four of 13 unmanned vehicles on Sunday afternoon while the mini-submarines were using bottom-mapping sonar to search for mine-like...

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