Battleship Maine Found by Dive Team

A research team using a robot diving vehicle announced in St. Petersburg, Fla., that it has found the wreckage of the battleship Maine three miles off the coast of Havana and two-thirds of a mile down. In 1898, the American warship, resting in Havana Harbor, blew up and sank, claiming the lives of 266 sailors. The nature of the explosion was never determined, but U.S. officials and the media blamed Spain and used that as a reason to foment the Spanish-American War. The team unveiled videotape of the battleship furrowed into the sand where it was scuttled in 1912.