June 28, 2008

Fans of Providence's Russian sub will be interested to hear that the submarine, which has been stuck at the bottom of Providence harbor since sinking last year during a storm, is being raised. However, they apparently won't be re-opening the old Russian Submarine 'museum' at Collier point park.

I was one of the few people who actually visited the submarine when it was open for tourism, back when my daughter visited RI in 2003. It wasn't exactly the most impressive tourist site I'd ever visited, but I liked it. Mainly, I just thought it was really cool that Providence had its own Soviet submarine. I mean, how many American cities can make that claim?