Polish navy finds wreck of Graf Zeppelin August 3, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : News, WreckDiving , trackback
I found this via Divester, that the Polish Navy have announced they may have found the Nazi aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. I say ‘may’, but they are ‘99.9% certain’. Nobody as yet, has actually dived the wreck and it has been explored so far using submersibles, but it lies in 86 mtrs of water. Amazingly the ship never saw combat due to political squabbles within the Nazi party, and Hitler’s disenchantment with the German Navy, and it was eventually sunk by the Soviets after being used for dive bombing practice, in 1947. This from MSNBC;
The Polish oil company Petrobaltic discovered the shipwreck on July 12 on the sea floor about 60 kilometers (38 miles) north of the port city of Gdansk. Suspecting it could be the wreckage of the Graf Zeppelin, the Polish navy sent a survey vessel Tuesday, navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Bartosz Zajda said.
“We are 99 percent sure — even 99.9 percent — that these details point unambiguously to the Graf Zeppelin,” Dariusz Beczek, the navy commander of the survey vessel, ORP Arctowski, said after returning to port Thursday morning.
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