Here is something incredible! Germany, during WWII had a fleet of submarines in the Black Sea. To protect them from the eyes of the allies, they built this base. After the war, the Soviet Union took Crimea back and improved the base for their nuclear submarine fleet. The base was a very secret, and very cool, way of servicing those submarines. There is a bay off the Black Sea into which the submarines sailed. They then went right, left, and right again and then into a tunnel! They were serviced inside the tunnel and then moved through the tunnel and out a different way. I wonder if the U.S. knew about this?
The top photo shows the bay in the foreground and the Black Sea beyond. It is not apparent from this photo, but a ship sailing by on the Black Sea and looking in would only see a small bay. The middle photo is a diagram of the man-made tunnel. Note that they came in one side and out the other. We did not have time, but for about $4 we could have gone into the facility. The bottom photo is the actual tunnel. I think this is cool.
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