yukoneer
July 14th, 2004, 01:06 AM
I couldn't find the right forum to post this, so i'll post it here...
http://www.canada.com/maritimes/news/story.html?id=3ee0d439-4070-4076-81ee-fbd8696be019
Divers find Nazi U-boat in Canadian waters
Remains of 49 sailors still entombed inside mostly intact sub off coast of Nova Scotia
RICHARD FOOT
CanWest News Service
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
A team of explorers has discovered the wreckage of a rare Nazi U-boat on the fishing grounds off Nova Scotia - the first sunken U-boat ever found in Canadian waters.
Working last week from a commercial lobster boat about 200 kilometres south of Shelburne, N.S., a crew of divers and marine archeologists located what they say is U-215, a mine-laying German submarine that disappeared in the midst of combat off the Atlantic coast in 1942.
The crew say the U-boat is mostly intact, its hatches unopened, with the remains of 49 German sailors still entombed inside.
"Although there were many U-boats prowling the shores of this country during the war, this is the first time the wreckage of one has been discovered in Canadian waters," says Ontario explorer Mike Fletcher, one of three divers who helped locate the submarine for an episode of the National Geographic television program The Sea Hunters.
U-215 was on its maiden voyage in the summer of 1942 - on a secret mission to lay mines in the heart of Boston harbour - when it intercepted and attacked an Allied convoy before reaching Boston.
Although U-215 sank a U.S. freighter during the attack, it was subsequently hunted down by a British warship escorting the convoy to Halifax.
U-215 and its crew of 49 German sailors disappeared after the incident without a trace. While historians believed the boat was sunk off the coast of New England, the actual wreckage had never been found.
http://www.canada.com/maritimes/news/story.html?id=3ee0d439-4070-4076-81ee-fbd8696be019
Divers find Nazi U-boat in Canadian waters
Remains of 49 sailors still entombed inside mostly intact sub off coast of Nova Scotia
RICHARD FOOT
CanWest News Service
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
A team of explorers has discovered the wreckage of a rare Nazi U-boat on the fishing grounds off Nova Scotia - the first sunken U-boat ever found in Canadian waters.
Working last week from a commercial lobster boat about 200 kilometres south of Shelburne, N.S., a crew of divers and marine archeologists located what they say is U-215, a mine-laying German submarine that disappeared in the midst of combat off the Atlantic coast in 1942.
The crew say the U-boat is mostly intact, its hatches unopened, with the remains of 49 German sailors still entombed inside.
"Although there were many U-boats prowling the shores of this country during the war, this is the first time the wreckage of one has been discovered in Canadian waters," says Ontario explorer Mike Fletcher, one of three divers who helped locate the submarine for an episode of the National Geographic television program The Sea Hunters.
U-215 was on its maiden voyage in the summer of 1942 - on a secret mission to lay mines in the heart of Boston harbour - when it intercepted and attacked an Allied convoy before reaching Boston.
Although U-215 sank a U.S. freighter during the attack, it was subsequently hunted down by a British warship escorting the convoy to Halifax.
U-215 and its crew of 49 German sailors disappeared after the incident without a trace. While historians believed the boat was sunk off the coast of New England, the actual wreckage had never been found.