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July 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The U-boat slipped under the doomed tanker to hide. But one of the tanker’s
three escorts, the USS Joyce, saw it on sonar and severely damaged it by
dropping depth charges.
The Germans, forced to surface, manned their deck guns while another escort
vessel, the USS Gandy, returned fire and rammed the U-boat. The third
escort, the USS Peterson, then hit the U-boat with two more depth charges.
The crew abandoned the submarine, but not before setting off explosions to
scuttle it. The submarine hadn’t been seen again until Monday.
The U-550 is one of several World War II-era German U-boats that have been
discovered off the US coast, but it’s the only one that sank in that area,
Mazraani said. He said it’s been tough to find largely because military
positioning of the battle was imprecise, and searchers had only a general
idea where the submarine was when it sank. Kozak noted that the site is far
offshore and has only limited windows of good weather.
The team towed a side-scan sonar vessel in a mow-the-lawn pattern over the
search area and found the U-550 after covering 100 square miles of ocean,
between the trip this year and last year, Mr Kozak said.
Just the nose of U-boat was visible on sonar on the first pass, but the team
was delirious after the second pass. when the sonar image made it obvious
they’d found it, Mazraani said. Quick dives to the wreck to beat bad weather
confirmed the find with pictures.
Mr Mazraani is cagey about the vessel’s precise location, saying only that
it’s in deep water. Mazraani’s said his best estimate was that the team
spent thousands of dollars of its own money on the expedition. He joked that
no one on the team, whose members range in age from the mid-20s to mid-50s,
stands to make money from the find unless someone writes a book.
Mr Mazraani said the next step is to contact any sailors or their families
from the escort vessels, the tanker and the German U-boat to share the news
and show the pictures. Another trip to the site is coming, he said, adding
the investigation has just started.
“The history behind it all is really what drives us,” Mr Mazraani
said.
Source: agencies
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