MYSTERY SOLVED: A FAMILY’S SEARCH FOR A MISSING WORLD WAR II SUBMARINE
Longing can chart a better course than Mapquest. After 65 years, the Abele brothers have finally found their father. Jim Abele commanded the Grunion, a U.S. Submarine that disappeared off the coast of Alaska during World War II.
Five years ago, his sons made a deal with their hearts, not their heads, and went looking for him. It cost them a bundle.
“If this were to be an official Navy project,” John Abele chuckled, “I would guess that the taxpayers would be paying about ten times what we’re paying.”
“How much are you paying?” I asked.
“That’s a secret,” he laughed.
Just like the mystery of what happened to their father’s sub.
Military search planes never found where the Grunion sank, but the brothers from suburban Boston kept looking. Last summer, they began crisscrossing the Bering Sea probing the depths with Sonar. This summer they found the sub a mile down on the slope of an underwater volcano, 12 miles north of Kiska at the western tip of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
Full story here:
http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/...21/373301.aspx
Details of the search for the sub and the families of the victims:
http://www.ussgrunion.com/