Giant WWII Japanese sub found off Hawaii

The Globe and Mail reported today that a Giant Japanese sub was found off Hawaii. The wreckage is of a large Second World War-era Japanese submarine - an I-400 Sensuikan Toku class sub, the largest sub built before the nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the 1960s. These subs were designed to ship and launch bomber aircraft.

A research team from the University of Hawaii discovered the I-401 submarine Thursday during test dives off Oahu. "We thought it was rocks at first, it was so huge," said Terry Kerby, pilot of the research craft that found the vessel. "But the sides of it kept going up and up and up, three and four stories tall. It's a leviathan down there, a monster."

Sounds kind of interesting? Like there might be some convert operation now revealed in the final days of the war? Well, I'm sorry to say that a few minutes of research has shown that this sub was taken as a prize and sunk up the US in '45. It never saw action aside from being attached by US aircraft while in drydock. So the "researchers" really haven't shown us something novel here. What a disappointment.