RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences

[Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

Actually probably some real U-boats. There was word of people taking u-boats
down there, going ashore, and scuttling them. I myself have been diving in a
u-boat base on the Argentine coast, at a spot called Cracker Bay. There are
some demolished concrete ruins, and railroad tracks that disappear into the
sea. The place is on a farm in Patagonia which is owned by a german family
who told us what it was. 


- Alec

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Holt [mailto:mholt@richmond.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:16 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences


Gregory Snyder wrote:
> 
> Growing Up in Argentina, you could probably find some real Nazi's.
> Didn't a lot of them flee to South america?

Martin Boorman, according to the old legend, and practically 
all the low-end functionaries who could get out before The End.

Kurt Tank wound up there for a while, in the late 50s and 
early 60s.  I suppose there might be some real U-boat plans
in someone's grandfather's forgotten papers.



Mike