Ahh, Florida! Sunken narco sub washes ashore

Condo life gets exciting here. This is 20 miles north of my house.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-mysterious-sunken-vessel-off-highland-beach-20151104-photogallery.html

Looks like the engine has lost it's head. Aluminum corroded away to nothing?

Dang illegal immigrants.

With a few extra bits, I see a challenge entry. Looks like a good start to a monoposto monocoque if you ask me.

HEy, the water is rising as the ice caps melt. How about the $2050 Grassroots submarine challenge?

Adrian_Thompson wrote: HEy, the water is rising as the ice caps melt. How about the $2050 Grassroots submarine challenge?

I'm thinking jetboats, that way the event format can stay the same!

Interesting choice of engine... looks like a six cylinder flathead. My guess is the sub blew a head gasket or something and head was removed. I think if the head corroded away there would still be head bolts coming out of the block.

Doesn't look like it was on the bottom for long.

GameboyRMH wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote: HEy, the water is rising as the ice caps melt. How about the $2050 Grassroots submarine challenge?

I'm thinking jetboats, that way the event format can stay the same!

I'm picturing something like this:

Could it be a brand new marine engine?

Tweaker, had to do a valve job mid-delivery.

My vote is very ambitious Cuban. An old flathead six would have been stock in one of the old yank tanks that were left in Cuba after the embargo. Most of those cars have been repowered with engines they can get parts for. This engine was pulled from an old American car, and while sitting around used to build this sub.

Might be bodies in it? Skeletons?