Mission: to dive the U-533 on open circuit and return alive and unharmed on June 9th2006
A group of divers from the Dubai Desert Sport Divers Club are planning an interesting technical dive on June 9th, on the U-533.
25 Apr, 1943
The boat was attacked by an American PBY-5A Catalina of VP-84/P-5. Three of U-533´s gun crew were injured by the
Catalina’s .30 cal. gunfire. They were: (Bootsmaat Buttkus, Matrosengefreiter Ludwig and Matrosengefreiter Fekken).
All of them went again out to sea and Buttkus and Ludwig perished with the boat the following October.
a. Depth 110 metres
b. Surrounding seabed is sand
c. Ocean environment – open sea, 40 km from nearest landmass
Technical information for type IXC/40
|
|
|
|
Trip report to follow after dive, by Peter Burge, team diver.
