Unbelievable Find: German U-boat off New Jersey!

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1. Thank you!

2. As I diver when I was reading Shadow Divers I found myself breathing in and out through my mouth as if I had a regulator in my mouth. It’s that good of a book!

3. Sometime after March, 1942 my mother was living on the north shore of Staten Island. One day she heard an enormous "whomp, whomp, whomp" from the harbor. She bundled up my sister and oldest brother who was a babe in arms and walked the few blocks down to the shoreline. There she saw what she described as a ring of US Navy destroyers throwing depth charges inside the ring. After a while she returned to their apartment. That evening here upstairs neighbor came home. He was a destroyer captain named Gordon Kasan (sp?). The two families were friendly and so she went up to ask him what had been going on that day. He told her that officially it was a drill, but that in actuality they had cornered and sunk a Nazi submarine in the harbor, then hooked onto the wreck and drug it outside the harbor and dropped it in deep water.

   I've never been able to find any scrap of evidence of this incident occurring, but my mother was a devout Methodist and comes from a long line of truth tellers. Whatever she saw she told me what she truly believed. If anyone has any idea what might have happened that day, I'd be most interested to know.

4. Given the statement that the captain was scorned for using too much fuel. I would suggest another possibility. He set sail to the US, ran out of fuel and while trying to stay hidden, the batteries died. They sat on the bottom unable to surface and died. Along comes the USN, the Sub and all on board are already dead as she sits on the bottom. They drop the charges and hit the Sub, there's no oil / fuel because they ran out. This is my theory.

5. We have been diving that since I was 16 1975.
   My uncle and i just thought everyone knew about it. In 1972 a big storm wiped out the dunes on island beach which uncovered a black german rubber dingy from ww2. Everyone down the shore has stories about germans walking around down there in ww2

6. This is interesting stuff, if anyone would like to see an intact U Boat, just go to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the only type IXC U-Boat still in existence.
   It also has a very interesting back story about it and how it ended up in Chicago.

7. Oustanding

8. Wow! Amazing!

9. Love it!
   New subscriber here!

10. How does one pronounce "Boston" when you're a Bostonian? I'm from "BAWSTON!" ?

11. 2:00 Richie Kohler "wreckreational diver"…

12. Germany said if it is our U-boat to keep your hands off it? Yeah, sure, you caused havoc in ww2, and you still want to boss orders. That will never happen.

13. Unless this sub lay on the ocean floor to evade the depth charges. The damage it received from early depth charges may have caused a gas explosion hours later after the ships left.

14. Odd little thing I noticed, in the 1997 video at the 25:00 minute mark you can clearly see the vice “red circle” around it on the workbench. However, later in the 2020 video at 1:26:17 minute mark, the top half of the vice is gone… Makes me wonder, most vices are cast iron or solid steel… So, it lasted all that time and just now… Finally rotted away? Or have others been taking things they shouldn’t be?

15. I like how the Seeker used to be a commercial fishing boat of some sort. It has the same lines as my friend Malvern's on Hatteras Island. I'm neither a diver or have done commercial fishing but I have broken federal law plenty of times saving pieces of ship wrecks after storms. Unfortunately the NPS didn't, doesn't and won't have funding for personnel to protect these pieces of history that many souls were lost on. Seeing a knee burnt half way through from a bonfire was why, getting unofficial permission is how. Anyways ramble over, I miss the ocean and think of it every day when I pick up trash. Peace

16. I've been diving since 1984 and mixed gas has been an option, for those inclined, the entire time. If you look at the history of mixed gas it's been speculated since 1919 to be a benefit. It would be much more accurate for Richie to say that mixed gas has come a long way since 1991, but to say that "everyone was breathing air" or "there were no mixed gases" in 1991 is false. Also to claim that there were no diving computers in 1991 is also false. Commercial dive computers were introduced in 1971 and have been in use recreational diving since the 1980s. I'm pretty sure that I purchased my first dive computer in the late 80s. Hate to pick on these things but I don't understand why someone like him would make these claims as I don't believe for a second that he is not aware that what he is saying is false. Maybe he thinks that it makes the story sound more dangerous and or interesting.

17. I heard there were pirates pulling up ship wrecks for the value of the medal.

18. Incredible. Wow Thanks much

19. Thank you all for this video and to all the divers. Fantastic video.

20. The sad thing is the east Asia wrecks are being blown up and salvaged for the preatomic metals they possess. There are British warships that have completely disappeared from the ocean floor, all that is left is the depression they made hitting the bottom.

21. I get the whole war graves thing. BUT, aren’t we talking about a German war grave from Hitlers time? When that’s the case, I say f@ck em! I mean, isn’t that what Hitler said with the Jews?

22. My grandmother lived on block island when that happened…told me about the explosions she saw,said it was loud…she could see they could hear the whisper of the bombs…she was there when they brought the dead sailor on the beach from the sub…i still have her book that they gave the people on block island of what to look for…planes,subs,ships…has drawings of planes and stuff…if they even thought they saw something they had to go to the radio tower to tell them…they would send planes from quonsett point to check it out..she said there were planes always flying low around island searching…..great story you did..thx

23. I was diving the Seeker back in the early eighties with Mad Bill Nagle and was kicked off the boat for a “ crime “ committed by my dive partner. Rest in peace Mad Bill.

24. My apologies, I sent my first message without seeing the whole footage. I wonder though, if the wreck is accessible as shown, that the German government doesn't try and repatriate these sailors remains.

25. Thanks to you guys there patrol is over may there fameleys now be at pece to know thay have been found

26. Did you andyour diving colleagues return any artifacts you removed from the wreck?

27. I read " Shadow Divers" several years ago, twice. Seeing this documentary has been a great renewal. You have been so respectful and had put lots of effort to find the families. You all are wonderful.

28. Did the skeletons on the german sub not wear stainless. dog tags

29. I have read Shadow divers three or four times. That being said is because it's the only book about u boats that has made feel as if I was there. Absolutely riveting and very freaking scary. That took some balls to dive!!

30. The intercoastal was created to to protect ships up and down the east coast

31. Awesome! thanks

32. Slow down faults fakers, just like I can own a military tank. People can own u boats that was a personal boat and it sunk. It doesn't mean the Germans were spying on us. So don't get your panties in a bunch you guys are drama queens

33. Listen to the twit Richie going on about bones etc how it effected him…yet STEALING FROM A WW2 GRAVE SITE DIDNT BOTHER HI.. Had to take prizes. Hypocrit.

34. It was mentioned the sub looked like it exploded from the inside. Could they have been trapped on the bottom and they couldn't get out so they decided to blow themselves up rather than having to suffocate to death?

35. Awesome videos

36. Japanese had some too

37. Very interesting video. Thanks. I can understand how Richie likes to dive around the UK. I used to club dive in the 60s and it didn't take long for us to go wrecking. Being such a maritime country the UK waters are littered with wrecks, many are so broken up they are disintegrated and unidentifiable. Often the only remains are mainly copper and bronze. One event I will never forget is having to get a conger eel out of the way so we could inspect a hold. When it swam out I saw the eel was about 9 foot long and was a bit pissed off. Fortunately they aren't too aggressive and it was just fleeing; but it was still scary. The event wasn't a movie and I wasn't under nitrogen narcosis!

38. question — if this sub was supposed to be sunk off the coast of Africa, did they base that off an actual wreck or was it just a guess on the german's part.. if it was an actual wreck , do they now have to redive the wreck in africa to find out what it actually is ??

39. Well that u-boat thumbnail in blue water sure isn't any NJ dive I've ever seen
    It looks more like U-352 in NC which I have been on

40. Nice video

41. Liked……. Subbed ( hehe irony )…….Rang the Bell

42. Thanks for the interesting video.

43. Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t think a mystery nazi u-boat being discovered making the front page “must have been a slow news day” like he stated.

44. I discovered the first American vessel, City of Raville, sunk by a German mine near the Cape Otway lighthouse, carrying 1000 tons of lead ingots.

45. Has the USA deployed submarine nets at US Ports at the time?

46. German u boats regularly conducted photograph mission s as well as releasing spies in boston harbor and new york harbor ,houston also. One is actually in st. Lawrence river in canada. Prince george was their n. American 4adio surveillance area.

47. Amazing. Simply

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