[Coleus]

Just heard Robert Kurson on the Monica Crowley show talking about his discovery and years of research into finding out the story behind this German U-boat found off the coast of NJ.  Neither the USA or Germany, who kept very meticulous records, had any documents about the whereabouts and sinking of the submarine.

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.

[OldFriend]

Read this book. Could not put it down. It was every bit as hearstopping as On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follet.... the book is brilliantly written and more than a bit thought provoking.

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!!!

[struwwelpeter]

Interesting. Puts me in the mood for a few rounds of Aces of the Deep.

"Erwunchte Tiefe erreicht, Herr Kaleun!"

[VOA]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/

I thought this sounded familiar...this was covered on PBS's NOVA as "Hitler's Lost Sub".

[Central Scrutiniser]

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.

[asgardshill]

The hull sits upright in the sand and is intact with the exception of the conning tower.

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.

[SAMWolf]

U-Boat Bump. There was a story recwntly about a U-Boat found close in off the Canadian shore.

[hershey]

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.

[vollmond]

Martin Horenburg, the late Funkmeister of the radio room on the U-869

Maybe they had an encounter with the Mothership?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

U-869

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