This 1960-built 15 foot long research submarine was built to photograph Lake George’s sunken bateaux (Photograph courtesy of Jim Parrott and Bateaux Below, Inc.).

Discovery of Baby Whale Submarine and Its Proposed Role in the 1960s Sunken Bateaux Investigation

In 1960, three area men constructed a 15 foot long research submarine designed to help photograph the sunken bateaux of 1758. In the summer 1960, the submarine was stolen from its dock and then sunk under mysterious circumstances. Bateaux Below divers discovered the yellow submarine, named Baby Whale, during a shipwreck inventory reconnaissance in 1995. Since the sunken vessel was "abandoned," the yellow submarine is now under the custodial care of the State of New York.



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