{"id":6980,"date":"2019-07-22T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6980"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:40:39","slug":"lost-french-submarine-located-in-mediterranean-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6980","title":{"rendered":"Lost French Submarine Located In Mediterranean 50 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A private search vessel has located a French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968. Officials are hopes that the mystery over the disappearance can finally be solved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a success, a relief and a technical feat,&#8221; Defence Minister Florence Parly wrote on Twitter, after the wreck was discovered off the southern French port of Toulon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thinking of the families who have waited for this moment for so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Minerve submarine was lost off France&#8217;s southern coast with 52 sailors on board on January 17, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Despite multiple search efforts over the years, it had never been found. But the discovery was ultimately made by a boat belonging to private US company Ocean Infinity, which found the Minerve 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Toulon at a depth of 2,370 metres (7,800 feet), according to a senior French naval officer.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident involving the Minerve has never been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have speculated that it could have been due to a problem with its rudder, a collision with another boat, the explosion of a missile or torpedo, or a fault with its oxygen supply systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private search vessel has located a French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968. Officials are hopes that the mystery over the disappearance can finally be solved. &#8220;It&#8217;s a success, a relief and a technical feat,&#8221; Defence Minister Florence Parly wrote on Twitter, after the wreck was discovered off the southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}