German U-boat wreck may be at bottom of Churchill River in Labrador
Does this grainy sonar image show sunken German U-boat at bottom of river 200 miles INLAND from the coast of Newfoundland?A diver searching for the bodies of three men who went missing in 2010 claims he made a shocking discovery – a German U-boat from World War II.
Brian Corbin said he found the submarine while he and his team were taking sonar images in the bottom of Churchill River in Labrador, Nova Scotia.
Mr Corbin, a 50-year-old diver from Happy Valley Goose Bay in Newfoundland, told the Star that he is 100 per cent certain it is a relic of WWII.
War relic? Diver Brian Corbin insists that this is an image of a sunken German U-boat from WWII
Part of the past: This U-boat, pictured in Kiel Naval Base in Germany, is one of hundreds used during WWII
Convinced: Brian Corbin said he's '100 per cent' certain that his sonar reveals a U-boat
Mr Corbin, along with several other crew mates, had originally been looking to find the bodies of three men who vanished around nearby Muskrat Falls in 2010.
And he's not the only one who's ready to believe the military submarine made its way into the river.
Wyman Jacque, the town manager for Happy Valley Goose Bay, told the paper that he thinks it is very possible that a German U-boat found its way to the bottom of a river.
Churchill River was dammed in the 1970s, but Mr Jacque said that before it could have been deep enough to allow U-boats clearance.
For his part, Mr Corbin told the Star that his sonar images show clear indicators of a German U-boat from the 1940s.
Our focus was finding bodies,’ he said, ‘but low and behold we found something that sort of resembles a submarine.’Deputy head of mission for the German Embassy Georg Juergens would not confirm the so-called discovery, but said in a televised interview that in the unlikelihood that Mr Corbin’s discovery was from the war, it would be deemed a grave site.
Discovery: He and other crew members found the vessel in Churchill River in Newfoundland while looking for the bodies of three men who vanished at Muskrat Falls in 2010
Deep and wide: The Churchill River eventually flows out into the Atlantic Ocean
As such, the final resting place of the so-called vessel would not be disturbed.
He added: ‘We must brace ourselves for surprises.’
The German Embassy in Ottawa told the Star that up to 50 German submarines had not been accounted for at the close of the Second World War.
U-boats, short for the German word meaning ‘Unterseeboot’ (under sea boat), were military submarines used in warfare mostly in the two World Wars.
Newfoundland went to war in 1939 because of constitutional ties with the United Kingdom.
The story of this particular vessel is shrouded in mystery, though it is possible that the U-boat could have entered the river through a channel to the Atlantic Ocean.
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