In Popular Culture
• "Bright Shark" is a novel written by Robert Ballard and Tony Chiu and centers around the recent discovery of the I.N.S. Dakar by an American research vessel. Israel and the U.S.S.R. join forces to preserve the submarine's secret—at the price of direct confrontation with the U.S.
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