Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

Quite possible.  In Alaska, there are some WWII gun emplacements on the coast,
sealed under rockslides, with guncrew and all entombed.

Stuff happens.

-L

--- Mark Steed <plutomark@mail.astate.edu> wrote:
> A story I heard comes to mind.  Supposedly a UBoat is still stuck 
> inside a cave in a Norweigan fjord.  The legend says there were 
> several of these caves the Kreigsmarine used to moor some of their 
> boats to hide them from aerial recon. Again supposedly during one 
> of the "tallboy" and "blockbuster" bombings by the RAF, the boat 
> was forever sealed inside.  I can't find any written evidence but 
> it does sound good though.
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Jack Skoda <jskoda@ellacoya.com>
> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:48:52 -0500
> 
> >On 2/5/02 4:43 PM, "Michael Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> >I don't know about bases but in "Iron Coffins" Kaptain-Lieutenant 
> Warner
> >contemplates an escape to Argentina in his u-boat at the close of 
> the
> >war.  I wonder if there isn't a type VII or IX 'get away car' 
> rotting in
> >some South American port.
> >
> >
> >-- Jack Skoda <jskoda@ellacoya.com>
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> 
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