In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, photo, rusting remnants of an old Russian submarine that once was used as a floating museum until it sank in 2007, remains in the Providence river in Providence, R.I. The state wants it gone. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island environmental officials are suing to get the hollowed-out hull of a Russian submarine removed from the site of a Providence scrapyard.
Remnants of the submarine rest mere feet from shore in Rhode Island. But the submarine isn't a museum. It's not a draw for divers, either. No one has touched its remains in about two years.
Its fate will likely be decided by a court.
After the Cold War, the sub in Rhode Island was sold and used as a restaurant and vodka bar and as a movie set before being turned into a floating museum.
It sank during a nor'easter in 2007 and was sold for scrap.
The scrapyard and the property owner are among those named in the lawsuit by the state Department of Environmental Management.
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