The water off Dania Beach was a bit too thin for the USS Memphis in February 1993.
The 360-foot-long Navy submarine, likely doing training exercises at John U. Lloyd State park, ran aground on a reef in 24 feet of water just south of the Dania Beach fishing pier.
The $800 million, nuclear-powered sub was stuck for 90 minutes until the tide lifted it and it limped back home to the King’s Bay Submarine Base in Georgia.
For years, subs have trained just offshore Dania Beach in collaboration with the Naval Warfare Center onshore. They do surface and underwater exercises in a restrcted four-mile offshore area.
The Navy keeps details of the training secret, but sightings of the big, menacing submarines just a few hundred yards off the shoreline have startled beachgoers, condo dwellers and boaters over the years.
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