U Boat off Cork to be made safe.

roundymac · 07-01-2015 11:22am #1

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/german-u-boat-on-cork-coast-to-be-disabled-305627.html
This is going to be a dangerous job, all because some divers could'nt leave the wreck alone. These mines are going to be unstable, could easily explode.

Rhys Essien · 07-01-2015 6:55pm

Jesus this sounds like a highly dangerous operation unless they were going to blow the whole lot.Id imagine this would have to be done with an unmanned rov.Do the Irish Navy have this gear I wonder.Should they be contacting the German Navy to assist.

Rhys Essien · 07-01-2015 7:05pm

I wonder did the Germans come over to check things out last March???.

Video here of the Luftwaffe at Cork Airport from March 2014.It dropped people off who headed to Cobh/Cork Harbour.

CJhaughey · 07-01-2015 11:02pm

Some people have no respect.
Divers have to cop on, chipping portholes off war graves is just mindless vandalism.
Not just this U boat but lots of wrecks all around Ireland have been damaged this way.

thomil · 08-01-2015 12:03am

Getting the German Navy in would actually make quite a lot of sense. They do have a lot of experience, considering the amount of mines that have been cleared in the North Sea and Baltic since the war. That Luftwaffe Airbus was unrelated however. As far as I know it was in Cork to facilitate a Crew Exchange for the Gorch Fock, the Sail Training Vessel of the German Navy, which was moored in Cobh around that time last year.

NUTLEY BOY · 08-01-2015 4:14pm

Presumably, these are contact mines ?

Did they have magnetic influence mines in WW1 ?

Sounds like a sweaty palms job if the ordnance is close to a gas pipeline :eek:

U Boat off Cork to be made safe.

Comments