He Found a Lost WWII Submarine After Decades of Searching. There Might Be 2 Tons of Gold on Board. 39.7%
Popular Mechanics - By Elizabeth Rayne - 6/26/2026, 1:30 PM
Negativity Bias 19.8% - Appeal to Emotion 17.6% - Confirmation Bias 16.2%
The Japanese Imperial Navy’s I Gō Dai Gojūni Sensuikan, or I-52 submarine, departed from Kure, Japan, en route to Nazi-occupied France on March 10, 1944. The submarine, codenamed Momi (which translates to “fir tree”), was set to rendezvous with a German U-boat near Lorient, and carried a cargo that included 2.2 tons of gold, which was... more