France's defense minister tweeted: 'I am thinking of the families who have waited for so long for this moment.'
A mystery that lasted for five decades has been solved after a missing French submarine was located off the coast of France. Previous efforts to locatehad failed since it vanished near the port of Toulon on the French south coast in January 1968 with 52 sailors on board.
Experts also thought that it could have been due to a problem with its rudder, a collision, the explosion of a missile or torpedo, or something wrong with its oxygen supply systems. An undated image of"Minerve", the submarine which disappeared at sea during an exercise in 1968. Some 109 submariners died.In the end it was a boat belonging to private U.S. company Ocean Infinity which found the submarine wreckage on Sunday. It had broken into three pieces and was at a depth of 2,370 meters, 27 miles off the coast from Toulon.
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