Selcuk Kolay, a Turkish naval engineer and diver, discovered three German submarines from the Second World War at the bottom of the Black Sea. This is reported by the TRT Haber TV channel, which has shot a documentary about the search for submarines.
The submarines U-23, U-19 and U-20 of the German Navy were sunk in 1944 off the coast of Turkey. For a long time their whereabouts remained unknown, which is why the submarines were nicknamed "the lost fleet of Hitler."
As it turned out, U-23 was located near the Turkish city of Agva, and U-19 and U-20 lay at a depth of 25 to 300 meters near the coast of Istanbul.
Find on the coast of France
In mid-January, it was reported that the wreckage of a German submarine UC-61 during the First World War was found near the city of Wissant in northern France. The submarine was found thanks to the strong tide. According to historians, the submarine got stuck in shallow water on the night of July 25-26, 1917. It is noted that 25 crew members were able to evacuate, and the submarine was blown up to prevent the enemy from getting it, but the German sailors were detained ashore.
Wreckage of a submarine off the coast of Spain
Last June, the wreckage of a Nazi submarine that sank during World War II was discovered 75 years later off the Estaca de Bares Cape in Galicia, an autonomous community of Spain. The submarine U 966 Gut Golz was discovered during an underwater expedition that searched for it for about eight years. According to archival documents, the submarine sank on November 10, 1943.
At the same time, at the bottom of the Wakasa Bay north of the Japanese prefecture of Kyoto, they found a submarine transferred by Nazi Germany to the Japanese during the Second World War.
In total, at a depth of about 90 meters, well-preserved hulls of three Japanese wartime submarines were found and filmed. Among them was the submarine Ro-500, which was manufactured under the name U-511 in Hamburg in 1941 and transferred to Japan as part of technical cooperation between the two countries.
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