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| | surface as the militaries of a number of countries invest neither manpower nor finances | | surface as the militaries of a number of countries invest neither manpower nor finances |
| | adequate for the relatively rare occurrences of deep water search and salvage. For example, | | adequate for the relatively rare occurrences of deep water search and salvage. For example, |
| − | Israel had hired an American company, “Nauticus,” which succeeded in April of 1999 in 4) locating its long lost submarine, “Dakar,” and has once again turned to Nauticus to locate | + | Israel had hired an American company, “Nauticus,” which succeeded in April of 1999 in locating its long lost submarine, “Dakar,” and has once again turned to Nauticus to locate |
| | wreckage and the “Black Boxes” of an F-16 that crashed and sank beneath the waters of the | | wreckage and the “Black Boxes” of an F-16 that crashed and sank beneath the waters of the |
| − | Mediterranean thirty kilometers west of Atlit on March 28, 2000. This civilian firm, Nauticus, | + | Mediterranean thirty kilometers west of Atlit on March 28, 2000.(4) This civilian firm, Nauticus, |
| | has, to date, located for the various militaries of the world a total of twenty F-14s, F-15s and F- | | has, to date, located for the various militaries of the world a total of twenty F-14s, F-15s and F- |
| | 16s.Yet, however plausible the explanation appears, the reports of KAL 007’s Soviet civilian divers | | 16s.Yet, however plausible the explanation appears, the reports of KAL 007’s Soviet civilian divers |