It's been a while since I had a post about modern ruins. The photograph above is one of several from an article at Atlas Obscura entitled "Abandoned Submarine Tunnels." The article relates:
Montenegro’s submarine tunnels, or bunkers, are channels dug out of cliff walls in the Bay of Kotor (on the northern coast of the Luštica Peninsula, near the village of Rose) built by the Yugoslav Army for the purpose of concealing submarines and small warships from satellites or spy planes.
Three such tunnels were constructed, intended as protection from air raids. A submarine would have entered a tunnel while submerged and surface completely once inside. With an average depth of about 90 feet and a maximum depth of over 200 feet, the Bay of Kotor offered an ideal location to such hide vessels of marine warfare.
They were abandoned after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Fake boulders meant to conceal the openings have deteriorated leaving the entrances easy to spot. Per the article, the tunnels are not closed off and the public can take boats to, or even into, the tunnels.
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