Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:04:30 EST
>From: EDWARD WITTENBERG
>To: MAHAN@MICROWRKS.COM
>CC: wew@papa.uncp.edu
>Subject: RE: I.N.S. Dakar
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>Sender: mahan-owner@microworks.net
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>Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 07:06:47 EST
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>
>FLOYD B. MACK wrote:
>
> >This came up from the depths:
> >> This is the second major search for the
> >> I.N.S. Dakar since it was listed as missing. In 1986, Israel and the
> >> United States sought the submarine during Operation Challenge
> >> Express. > >>
> >>
> >>In the book,
> >>the Israeli government pulled out all the stops to ensure that no
> >>information was retrieved from the wreckage by the American
> >>oceanographers which discovered her.
> >>
> >>Edward Wittenberg
> >>wew@papa.uncp.edu
> >>
> >
> >Edward,
> >
> >If the submarine has/had been discovered, why is there a search for
> >her?
>
> >Cheers,
> >Floyd B. Mack
> >Southern Yankee in Britain
>
>Floyd,
>
> Dr. Ballard’s _BRIGHT SHARK_ is a work of fiction. Ballard uses
>the story of the DAKAR as the basis for his novel (his first, by the
>way). In the book, the sub was engaged in transporting Russian Jews to
>Israel, in addition to certain ‘speical’ military supplies that Israel had
>obtained from the Soviet Union. When American oceanographers discover
>her, the Israeli government pulls out all the stops to ensure that no
>information can be retrieved from the wreckage.
>
>Edward Wittenberg
>wew@papa.uncp.edu

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