to the original vessel. After the families of the Dakars crew protested, the name was changed to Dragon, which shares the same letters in Hebrew. In popular culture Bright Shark is a novel written by Robert Ballard and Tony Chiu; it describes the discovery of INS Dakar by an American research vessel. Israel and the USSR join forces to preserve the submarine's secret – at the price of direct confrontation with the U.S. References Further reading External links INS Dakar – Extensive information regarding the submarine and the search and discovery efforts to locate her. British T-class submarines of the Israeli Navy Ships built in Plymouth, Devon 1943 ships Maritime incidents in 1968 1968 in Israel Israeli submarine accidents Warships lost with all hands Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea January 1968 events in Asia