'Operation Deadlight' German WW2 Type VII U boat lying in 67m off the north coast of Donegal

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'Operation Deadlight' German WW2 Type VII U boat lying in 67m off the north coast of Donegal

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Күн бұрын

Nice video of a Type VII Uboat in relatively good condition. It is equipped with the round type snorkel which were used later in WW2.

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@FernandoPartridge Жыл бұрын

There are no roses on a sailor's grave, No lilies on an ocean wave, The only tribute is the seagull's sweeps, And the teardrops that a sweetheart weeps.

@roymichaeldeanable Жыл бұрын

Love the poem

@FernandoPartridge Жыл бұрын

@@roymichaeldeanable I came across it in the book 'Iron Coffins' by Herbert A. Werner who served on and commanded U boats in WW2, it's from a German song apparently.

@bioshock6935 Жыл бұрын

All that history all underwater with a story to be told with each one of them

@wernerfeil7900 Жыл бұрын

Ein schönes und zugleich trauriges Video. So viele sind mit ihren stählernen Särgen untergegangen. Und nicht nur sie, auch die Seeleute der von ihnen versenkten Schiffe. Ein trauriges Kapitel der Erdgeschichte. Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen.

@ewancampbell4347 Жыл бұрын

Unlike so many submarines of all nations that were lost with their crews, the U-boats of operation dead light were surrendered boats that were then scuttled by the allies after the war.

@qatsi4897 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Amazing how there is so much left of the stern while from the bow only the torpedo tubes remain.

@gitanoprimo Жыл бұрын

Great underwater photography....

@GreenWaterStudio Жыл бұрын

Beautiful dive. Well done.

@rudyruedemann2334 Жыл бұрын

Great video 📹 😊 I'm slowly working my way towards becoming a rebreather diver. I'd like to go on dives like these and film. I do mostly rec diving now and a little bit of tec diving. I have two Black Tip tech scooters that I use when I'm filming. Very good video!!! 😊😊😊

@markharp1886 Жыл бұрын

This video has an excellent quality and a famous music!

@stumpusMaximus Жыл бұрын

The marine life is amazing! How good comes out of bad.

@boholde2757 Жыл бұрын

I can’t help but feel empathy for the sailors who perished in this submarine. I wouldn’t want to be in a submarine under attack.

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

This was an Operation Deadlight Uboat, so no submariners died on this Uboat. But during WW2 German submariners were the only group of fighting men who had a higher mortality rate than Kamikazi pilots.

@boholde2757 Жыл бұрын

@@CitymanIreland I was not aware of Operation Deadlight. I just Googled it. Knowing that, I feel much better. Thank you for informing me.

@alexwild4350 Жыл бұрын

@@CitymanIreland The opening scenes of the film Das Boot tell us there were 40,000 Kreigsmarine Uboat men, of which 30,000 perished. I doubt there was ever 30,000 Kamikazi Pilots in total, and by definition since it was a suicide mission, 100% of them should have died. We know a few did not. I'd suggest your comparison is inaccurate and misleading to compare UBoat men and Kamikazi fliers since the UBoat men did aspire to living. However a similar attrition rate was sustained in RAF Bomber Command to the German UBoat arm. That is in the history books. Of any four men, three would die.

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

@@alexwild4350 That claim was made by a researcher on a television programme I was involved with & I assume that he did his research properly. He spoke of the rate (or percentage) mortality of German Submariners. Comparison of Kamikazi pilots is obviously not the same since the pilots were signed up to die - but they did a long training course and had to wait their pick. I have no reason to doubt the researcher's claim, but would be interested to get some numbers.

@alexwild4350 Жыл бұрын

@@CitymanIreland A query to Wikipeadia turned up this page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze which in the first paragraph suggests that the total number of Kamikaze pilots to die was 3,800. Of interest is the Kamikaze pilot who returned from his 9th mission was shot dead when he landed. Of note in the Wiki article is the proposed 'thorough' training of Pilots was considered wasteful because the pilots would in principle only make one combat flight. The Japanese airforce was reluctant to use what few skilled and capable pilots they had left, but in the end even these went in because the supply of serviceable aircraft, fuel and the superiority of Allied aircraft left little alternatives as the Allies continued with speed to advance towards Japan.

@Userdfgtg Жыл бұрын

Beautiful, missing just sound theme of dasboot movie

@leha4630 2 жыл бұрын

Not much of the outer hull is left, except for the pressure hull.

@CitymanIreland 2 жыл бұрын

It's fairly normal for the outer hull to be disintegrated and the pressure hull to be intact. Pressure hull must be made a lot thicker.

@crufflerdoug Жыл бұрын

This is also true of the U-352, which is a relatively easy wreck dive off of North Carolina in the US. Very little of the outer hull is left. I was told the pressure hill was not only thicker, but made of higher grade steel that was more resistant to corrosion etc.

@fredericcolombier5380 Жыл бұрын

A little thought for the souls, locked up there for 80 years in its carcass placed on barely 67 small meters deep. Died for a cause that brought their country to ruin and Europe to chaos. Peace to the soul of all the soldiers, the heroes, fallen in the field of honor, doesn't matter in the end, under which flags they are beaten. They are there, aligned under white crosses and or as well as the vestiges which lock them away from theirs for eternity, the necessity of maintain peace at all costs, everywhere on our planet. And that we must all fight together to get there, hand in hand and even if the human is the worst enemy of the human, the majority of us are there and only want to live in peace, where we live and this , despite differences that some see as a problem but which makes our strength, that of humanity, for what it is and what it represents for all of us. P.S : Thx for the video , by chance the sea have clear visibility on this one wreck , it's not the case for some.

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

This U boat was part of Operation Deadlight, where surrendered uboats were sunk by the Allies after the war. No submariners died on this U boat.

@BuzbyWuzby Жыл бұрын

And your thoughts on the thousands of merchant mariners, all unarmed civilians, who were murdered by these 'heroes'? Not to mention all of the unarmed civilians murdered by the other armed forces of Germany? Hypocrite!

@rolf1727 Жыл бұрын

@@BuzbyWuzby studieren Sie erst mal die Geschichte ab 1900 , die Zeit vor der Urkatastrophe des 1. Weltkrieg. Nicht nur die angloamerikanische Erzählung die allen erzählt wurde. Wer hat den 1. Weltkrieg schon ab 1906 geplant mit der massiven Aufrüstung der Seeflotte? Das ehemalige britische Empire sollte mal endlich kritisch ihre Geschichte untersuchen nach Fakten. Ohne den 1. Weltkrieg hätte es den 2. Weltkrieg nicht gegeben. Was war mit der Seeblockade die noch ins Jahr 1919 bestand durch britische Schiffe. Es starben durch Hunger Hunderttausende im Deutschland nach dem 1. Weltkrieg. Die Seeblockade bestand solange bis der Versailler Vertrag unterzeichnet war. Das war Erpressung.

@bolinfan1519 Жыл бұрын

The Germans made a heroic effort in the late war to defeat the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union and its allies. Operation Barbarossa pre-empted the USSR's own Operation Icebreaker, the invasion of Central and Western Europe, which was scheduled for July 1941. If it wasn't for the armies of the German Third Reich, millions of Europeans would have been tortured and liquidated by the Communists, as was customary when the Reds took over. I lost Polish family members who were starved and frozen to death at the Soviet Gulag at Archangel, near the Arctic Circle, in 1940.

@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823 Жыл бұрын

Stalin was not ready to start own invasion attempts before 42/43. July 41? Never.

@user-xf5mm5ic6j Жыл бұрын

Гитлер еврей, Сталин еврей и миллиардеры мира(евреи) договорились об этой войне.

@MichaelNeumann-nr1mu Жыл бұрын

Ich vermute das es U 240 sein könnte .

@jamesbaldwin7676 Жыл бұрын

The U.S. Navy lost a total of 52 subs during WW2 while Germany lost nearly 800 with wrecks scattered all over the globe and in every. ocean. It therefore should come as no surprise, when divers find them. Indeed they're nothing more than human seashells.

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

German submariners were the only group of fighting men who had a higher mortality rate than Kamikazi pilots.

@jacquespollet7999 Жыл бұрын

qu'ils reposent en paix ...

@CGM_68 Жыл бұрын

Il n'y a eu aucun mort. 116 U-boots sont coulés ou sabordés en eau profonde au large de Lisahally en Irlande du Nord, (ou dans le Loch Ryan en Écosse) entre novembre 1945 et février 1946.

@jacquespollet7999 Жыл бұрын

@@CGM_68 merci pour votre réponse

@pietervaness3229 Жыл бұрын

OK , A DEADLIGHT CASUALTY. ... NOT A WAR GRAVE .

@PaulSmith-pz9eq Жыл бұрын

Would help to know what I’m looking at

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

You're probably right that if the video was edited with descriptions it would be easier for people who weren't greatly au fait with submarines. You can easily acquaint yourself with all the different types of uboats here - www.uboat.net

@1teamski Жыл бұрын

Which boat is this?

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

I don't know which Uboat this is - I gave the co-ordinates to another commenter.

@JB-np5xi Жыл бұрын

How deep?

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

Ah, ha, JP, the clue is in the title!

@Kaiserzeit1871 Жыл бұрын

Davon sollten wieder einige gehoben werden, damit die deutsche Marine wenigstens ein paar kampferprobte U-Boote hat.

@kevinwilloughby8690 10 ай бұрын

RIP

@pikemaster1972 2 жыл бұрын

Glory to all German soldiers RIP

@BuzbyWuzby Жыл бұрын

Including the SS?

@a6m868 Жыл бұрын

@@BuzbyWuzby Yes

@unclexeres Жыл бұрын

I cannot but think of all of the innocent lives taken by these Men and feel only sorrow for their victims.

@sidahmedouabel7417 Жыл бұрын

@@BuzbyWuzbythe only army wich doesnt deserve respect is the usarmy...

@JG-mp5nb Жыл бұрын

No Germans died on this boat. It was surrendered at the end off WW2.😊

@williamtarpley4025 Жыл бұрын

The noise was to much

@nihilmiror6312 Жыл бұрын

Turn it down! 😤

@magarydamico4018 Жыл бұрын

Any Idea which U-boat it was?

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

I don't know which U boat, but its position is 55 degrees, 36 minutes north & 007 degrees, 46 minutes west.

@CGM_68 Жыл бұрын

U-2506 is at 55°37′N 07°30′W. Which was a rare Type XXI U-boat

@CitymanIreland Жыл бұрын

@@CGM_68 We have dived both U2506 & U2511 (XXI's) but this is a Type VII. They are around 10/15 nM south east of that position

@CGM_68 Жыл бұрын

@@CitymanIreland Thanks. I realise that. Many of the subs sank on their way to the scuttling area, so there is no way of knowing the identity of many of them.

@magarydamico4018 Жыл бұрын

@@CGM_68 Thank you! Connor!