Posted on 07/25/2004 1:28:47 PM PDT by Coleus
In 1991, a group of weekend scuba divers, brought to a spot in the Atlantic Ocean where it was said that fish could be found in abundance -- often a hint of a shipwreck below -- were stunned to find the sunken, rusting remains of a German submarine just 65 miles from Point Pleasant.
But naval records could not document the presence of a U-boat within more than 150 miles of the site. Except for some china plates engraved with the Nazi swastika, there were no identifying marks on the sub. And as for what happened to the sunken warship, the ghosts of the doomed crew still entombed inside the dark hull were not talking.
What brought the men together was a discovery that still amazes historians - a World War II German U-boat sunk only 60 miles off the coast of the Jersey Shore.
The author walks the fine line between praising the dead nazis and telling the story of their lives.
A tremendous amount of research at great expense went into thi book.
READ IT!!!!!
LOL....no I'm not related to anyone in the story!!!
JA WOHL!!!!!
"Erwunchte Tiefe erreicht, Herr Kaleun!"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/
I thought this sounded familiar...this was covered on PBS's NOVA as "Hitler's Lost Sub".
Met a former adventure diver who dove with Sheck Exley on a few U boats. He was working as the engineer on this liveaboard I was on in Australia. He was with a group that found a U boat that was uncharted, strange thing though, the hull was completely clean and shiney, and there was no coral or plant life anywhere near the ship. It was sealed, and they tried to get a hatch opened to get the registration number. After they dove it, they got a visit from a navy boat, and were told to get the hell out of the area, the navy knew all about the U boat, as it was full of mercury and was dangerous as hell. They got the heck out of there, in a hurry.
Another great diving book is called "The Last Dive" by Bernie Chowhudry. About a father and son who died trying to ID a U boat. They made the mistake of diving with regular air, rather than tri-mix and got narc'd out at depth, got confused, couldn't find their second tank and had to come up without decompressing or run out of air. The father died instantly, his blood eseentially turned into foam, the son died after a few hours in a chamber.
Interesting. Sounds like either a surface vessel grazed her while she was submerging or a depth charge popped a faulty weld where the pressure hull and conning tower join.
Kurson mentioned that only weeks ago the movie rights were signed.
Wonder what hollyweird will do to this story.
This sounds like the father son team in this story. Didn't realize a book had been written about them.
U-Boat Bump. There was a story recwntly about a U-Boat found close in off the Canadian shore.
"Aces of the Deep." There's a blast from the past! Dated but still the best U-Boat sim out there.
I'm reading "Shadow Divers" right now - it is great. I actually know some of the people (Steve Bielienda, who is not treated kindly) and I also know Bernie. I think I'll settle for pics of the wreck, however - I'd rather be in Cayman.
That was a very large submarine - almost 300 feet? - thats pretty big for a WWII sub, no?
Wasn't this the subject of a PBS show last year? Extremely interesting. The sister of someone on that UBoat lives in NJ, and the man who found the boat paid her a visit and gave her stuff he'd retrieved with her brother's name on it. She'd had no idea all these years what had happened to him.
I dive every few months, and do Nitrox, but the deepest I've been is 140 feet in Cozumel, I have no need or desire to do any decomp dives. I am addicted to Nitrox, I did a few dives on 39% Oxygen in Vietnam, and it was a nice high, and I didn't need to sleep off the rest of the day!
Thta's what I was thinking. However the reviews for the book have very postive.
LOL. Been hanging around the duck pond too much?
I watched that show. I didn't fall asleep. That's my criteria for interesting TV.
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