Discovery Channel to film sunken sub

Honolulu Advertiser ^ | Wednesday, December 4, 2002 | William Cole

[Vidalia]

Two University of Hawai'i deep diving submersibles will return Dec. 17 to the site of the Japanese midget submarine that became the first casualty of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

The 78-foot submarine lay upright in 1,200 feet of water, camouflaged in what has been called a "military junkyard," until the Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory submersibles Pisces IV and Pisces V discovered it during a training dive on Aug. 28.

[Vidalia]

FYI for WWII and Naval history buffs...

[cmsgop]

to confirm that a 4-inch shell fired by the Ward punched a hole through both sides of the sub's conning tower.

Thats Amazing !!

[cmsgop]

Oh and another thing Discovery Channel, Could you find out whatt happend to the USS Dorado that went down in WW II. A releative Earl Schneider was skipper of that boat. Enemy or Friendly fire ?????

[RocketWolf]

Uss Dorado is an interesting case. No real evidence exists but the foremost theory is that it was attacked and sunk in error by US patrol aircraft. There are plenty of instances during the war of attacks by " friendly" forces and the submarine Shark 2 was actually sunk in a known safety lane while exchanging recognition signals with the DD which sank her. On the other hand, the authoritive U Boat site ( U-Web) claims Dorado was sunk by a minefiend laid by a U Boat.