Bill Akins Wrote:
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> I am a diver who lives near Tampa, Florida U.S.A.
> It has come to my attention that in 1945 the coast
> guard
> took a captured two man german midget sub out just
> one mile east of one of our islands here and sunk
> it for gunnery practise. My dive buddy has a book
> that tells of this. In addition I spoke with some
> diver acquaintances of mine about a year ago who
> told me they were diving this sub and our coast
> guard came to their boat and ran them off telling
> them there were military exercises in the area.
> There were no ships, boats, or military exercises
> going on though.
> I have heard that U166 is the only german sub sunk
> in the gulf of mexico but this midget sub would
> make that two.
> I plan to find out more about the sub and will try
> to dive on it and hope I don't get ran away also!
> Since the sub is in Florida waters the state would
> have jurisdiction over it and not the coast guard
> but it is hard to argue with men with guns when
> they tell you to leave.


The German Seehund in question is now in a Tampa museum. The story will be on The History Channel in November...