Submarine Surfaces in the Middle of a City – Then Maintenance Workers Peek Inside

A shape that shouldn’t be there

It lay at the deepest point of the canal’s western bend, still half-buried in the black silt that centuries of city living had deposited there. At first glance, it looked like a pipe — an industrial casing, perhaps, something left behind by construction crews who’d never come back for it. But pipes didn’t have rounded portholes. Pipes didn’t have rudder fins.