These Deserted Submarines And Bases Will Give You Goosebumps Like Nothing Else

The Sub Marine Explorer

The Sub Marine Explorer suffered a story even more tragic than the others on the list. It was completed by a German inventor by the name of Julius H. Kroehl and an American inventor named Ariel Patterson. It was one of the first underwater crafts and the very first submersible that could go below 100 feet for hours. Six crew members could fit inside the Explorer. It was developed for the Brooklyn-based Pacific Pearl Company and not for military use! Unfortunately, the inventors were not aware of the way decompression affected the human body, so it ended in disaster. Crew members suffered “the bends” and died. Kroehl himself was the first of them to die after doing trial runs. They eventually abandoned the vessel because of the condition it induced as well as the overfishing of the pearl beds. Archaeologist James Delgado was the one who discovered it decaying in Panama.