Monday, February 4, 2008
Hitler’s lost U-boat fleet found in Black Sea
During World War Two, Nazi Germany transported six U-boat submarines 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping in the Black Sea. The subs operated out of Romania for over two years, hunting and sinking dozens of Russian ships.
When Romania switched sides and declared war against Germany, it left the remaining three subs - three had already been lost in combat - with nowhere to go. They were scuttled by their crew as the war neared its end.
The location of the three U-boats has been a mystery. Until now.
Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer, has located one of the subs two miles off the coast of Turkey sitting 8o feet under the surface. He believes he knows the location of the remaining two.
I’ve always wanted to dive a U-boat. There are about seven that can be reached by SCUBA here on the east cost of the United States. I got to dive ship wreaks while I was in the Air Force and stationed on Guam. There is one Japanese tanker from Word War Two sitting atop a German cruiser from World War One. I once dove deep enough so that I could put one hand on the German ship while placing my other hand on the Japanese tanker. It turned out to be highly anticlimactic.
Guam had a lot of cool dive sites. It didn’t have any U-boats.
YOU ARE A WWII BUFF!
No, I just used to like diving ship wrecks. WW2 just provided quite a few in the Pacific.
I’m just f-ing with you. I remember how you were represented in that one article about the Nazi swag at Wal-Mart.
You sold Nazi swag to Wal-Mart???
You know, maybe I am a WWII buff. That is, maybe I used to be. As a kid I was really interested in it and used to read a lot about it. I also used to play Avalon Hill’s classic WWII war game SQUAD LEADER.