Spying on a foreign submarine, listening and watching, recording and tracking, was one thing.

"The point is, if there's a foreign submarine down there right now, we don't know about it," the 37-year-old Minister said.

A foreign submarine is then recognized to have entered the trap, and the Navy responds in force with major forces stationed nearby.

They began to swim desperately across the narrow water that divided them from the foreign submarine.

At first officials said a collision with a foreign submarine might have caused it to sink.

It had the distilled tastelessness of what they made on the submarine, clean and foreign, as he was in this alien place.

Hours later, a foreign submarine was sighted off of Point Arguello.

In the early morning, just off our French base, we heard the propeller noises of a foreign submarine.

Military officials have repeatedly suggested that the sinking was caused by a collision with a mine or a foreign submarine.

The Russians initially said the sub appeared to have sunk after a collision, possible with a foreign submarine.