Divers find wreckage of experimental submarine built in 1907 in Connecticut

The Defender was built by millionaire Simon Lake and visited by Amelia Earhart before it was scuttled in the Long Island Sound

Divers in Connecticut have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine built in 1907 and later scuttled in the Long Island Sound.

The Defender, a 92ft boat, was found on Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut.