ALAND ISLANDS, Finland — Divers have found the wreck of the S-2 Soviet submarine after a decade-long search in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. The team of divers that found the World War 2 wreck informed Russian and Finnish authorities about their discovery but declined to reveal its location to protect it from scuba looters. According to Markus Lindholm, curator of maritime archaeology at Finland's National Board of Antiquities who helped identify the wreck, the sub was last seen at the ocean's surface by a lighthouse keeper on Market Island, west of the Aland archipelago. The lightkeeper's log, which stated that an explosion was heard after the sub headed north and dived into a Finnish minefield, helped divers locate the wreck after nearly 70 years. "According to all available sources no other submarine has sunk in those waters," said Lindholm, curator of maritime archaeology at Finland's National Board of Antiquities. Photos taken by the divers confirm that the sub hit a mine. "The mine must have hit the submarine hull near the torpedo tubes and then the whole thing blew up," he said. | 
