Commercial Divers Discover Sunken Experimental U.S. Submarine From Early 1900s

A volunteer team of commercial divers located the wreckage of the Defender, an experimental submarine rejected by the U.S. Navy in the early 1900s.
The Defender was built in 1907 and scuttled in Long Island Sound in 1946 after many years docked and unused in New London, Connecticut.
Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut, led the team that found the Defender.
Simon spent months analyzing sonar and mapping data to find any anomaly matching the size of the submarine.
Simon and his team plan to continue diving on and documenting the wreckage and have contacted the Navy about helping to preserve the site.