RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences

[Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

>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.

I am not talking of any U-boats having ended up there via negotiations or
capture. I mean they were (supposedly) used as ocean liners to get top brass
out there clandestinely. Once the passengers disembarked, they were
scuttled. No participation in this by the Argentine government.


>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.

Yes, this would be completely unofficial and probably unknown to the
government. The region is almost uninhabited and the farms large enough you
would see them on a map of the world, although this farm is relatively close
(100km?) to a town named Puerto Madryn. It is a very remote desert coast,
and the first paved road to get there was completed only in the 1970s. If
you look it up on a map, you'll see Puerto Madryn is on a very protected
gulf called Golfo Nuevo. Bahia Cracker, where the base was, is one of the
last bays before the southern tip of that gulf, on the mainland. Its
actually pretty interesting geographically, if you see it on a map.