Editing Strait of Tartary (section)

=== Recent history ===
[[Soviet submarine S-117|''S-117'']] was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Shchuka class submarine]] that was lost on or about December 15, 1952, due to unknown causes in the Strait of Tartary in the [[Sea of Japan]]. The boat may have collided with a [[surface ship]] or struck a [[naval mine|mine]]. All forty-seven crewmen died in the incident.

The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]], carrying 269 people including a sitting U.S. congressman, [[Larry McDonald]], strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15 interceptor]] just west of [[Sakhalin Island]]. The plane came down on the waters off the strait's only land mass, [[Moneron Island]]. An intensive naval search by the U.S. with assistance of Japanese and Korean vessels [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007#Search for KAL 007 in international waters|was carried on in a {{convert|225|sqmi|km2|sigfig=2}} area of the strait just north of Moneron Island]].