Divers find Nazi U-boat in Canadian waters

[ytardif]

Friend of mine sent me this:

PUBLICATION : Montreal Gazette
DATE : 2004.07.13
EDITION : Final
SECTION: News PAGE: A10 BYLINE: RICHARD FOOT SOURCE: CanWest News Service DATELINE: HALIFAX
HEADLINE: Divers find Nazi U-boat in <Canadian> waters: Remains of 49 <sailors> still entombed inside mostly intact sub off coast of Nova Scotia
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.

[nalfein]

There is a thread about it over on The Deco Stop....

http://thedecostop.com/forums/showth...643#post116643

[gchapman]

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.

This is particularily interesting because this is one of six U-Boats of a type designed specificly for undersea mine warfare. It has six vertical tubes/doors coming up off the forward deck for deploying the mines.

Between the fact that it is a war grave and still contains live mines, the dive site will undoubtedly be off-limits.

[Mike Newman]

Does anyone know in what depth of water this suspected U-215 was found?

That would be interesting to know.

[nalfein]

Does anyone know in what depth of water this suspected U-215 was found?

That would be interesting to know.

I believe it was about 90m.