U Boat off Cork to be made safe.

roundymac

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

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

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

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

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

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: