# China has an underground submarine base

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740 "2008-05-09T20:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/1 "2008-05-09T20:40:22Z")

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Check out the link at [NPR.](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90309537) This is pretty cool. They should send James Bond in with a minisub.

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**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/2 "2008-05-09T21:01:35Z")

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Man - underground submarines. I keeping thinking what a pain it is to move something like a freezer out of a basement. Must be a real pain to move a submarine, eh?

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/3 "2008-05-09T21:12:19Z")

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Does the man who runs it own a white long haired cat by chance?

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/4 "2008-05-09T21:51:26Z")

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Aha! A while back, somebody had a thread asking about mysterious vent pipes in the middle of a field. I suggested they were periscopes on underground submarines. Some of you guys gave me the horselaugh and said I was crayy-zee! Well, look who’s got the last laugh, now! 😃 The truth comes out, eh? 😛 I knew those commies were up to something.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/5 "2008-05-09T22:00:10Z")

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There’s an error in the NPR story. They reported the base as being on Hainan Island, when everyone knows it is on Lugu Dao. Or, as it is known in English, Skull Island.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-has-an-underground-submarine-base/448740/6 "2008-05-09T22:39:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Ravenman]  
There’s an error in the NPR story. They reported the base as being on Hainan Island, when everyone knows it is on Lugu Dao. Or, as it is known in English, Skull Island.  
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If you send that in, they will read your email on Thursday.