Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences

[Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Alec Smyth wrote:
> 
> 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.

What's this?

According to Official Records, the Argentine adventure ended
with nothing near Argentina.  I don't recall the Argentines
getting any old U-boats.  U-977 and U-530 (was that the one
that sank a few ships off the Amazon Delta AFTER the war?)
were sent to the U.S., as I recall it.

If there was a U-boat base there, it's probably quite unofficial
and insanely illegal.  But this is the sort of thing that makes
history so interesting.




Mike