diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 001fc013..e1575fcf 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "src/hdf5"]
-	path = src/hdf5
-	url = https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5.git
 [submodule "test/vol-tests"]
 	path = test/vol-tests
 	url = https://github.com/HDFGroup/vol-tests.git
diff --git a/src/hdf5 b/src/hdf5
deleted file mode 160000
index 0553fb7a..00000000
--- a/src/hdf5
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0553fb7ac7f03a919c91cdbbd5648b8aadbe05af