The submarine Achi Dakar rare Pin, Navy number C-77

The submarine Achi Dakar rare Pin, Navy number C-77
 Achi Dekar

The submarine Ahi Dakar, fleet number T-77, was a submarine in the service of the Israeli Navy. The submarine originally served as HMS Totem, in the British Navy, and entered service towards the end of World War II. In 1965, Israel purchased the submarine. She was renovated at the Portsmouth shipyards, manned by an Israeli crew trained by the British Navy, and set sail for Israel on January 9, 1968. On her way to Israel, on January 25, the Dakar sank for an unknown reason, and all 69 of her crew perished.

The last position report was received from the submarine on January 24, 1968 at 06:00 AM south of the eastern tip of Crete, and the last transmission was received from her 18 hours later. Despite extensive searches conducted for her by ships, submarines and aircraft, the submarine was not found on the surface of the water and was declared lost. The information and assessments about the reasons for her loss were not published, and in the opinion of the public in Israel, a mystery and a national trauma was created.

About a year after its sinking, one of the submarine's emergency buoys was discovered on the shore of the Gaza Strip. Incorrect conclusions from the analysis of the findings of the buoy and its location led to searches for it on the coasts of Egypt and the Aegean Sea, but these turned up nothing.

On May 28, 1999, 31 years and four months after her disappearance, the remains of "Dakar" were found by the search ship of the Nauticos company. The remains were found at a depth of 3 km on the road to Haifa, 485 km from its destination.