SUB MARINE EXPLORER: A CIVIL WAR-ERA SUBMERSIBLE IN PANAMA

摘要

In 2001, a visit to Panama's Archipielago de las Perlas (the Pearl Islands), which lie off the Pacific coast of the isthmus, resulted in the chance rediscovery of a forgotten submarine that lies in the intertidal zone of Isla San Telmo, the farthest west and most remote of the islands. After two years of research, the likely identification of the craft as Sub Marine Explorer, a 12 meter long, 3 meter broad riveted and cast iron vessel built in Brooklyn, New York in 1865-1866 was advanced as a working hypothesis.