Hello Gentlemen,

I retain an open mind, and have studied these Argentine U-boat stories for nearly two decades, accumulating an entire file cabinet drawer on the subject.

About ten years ago I was part of a group that had planned an expedition to Golfo san Matias to search for an alleged U-boat wreck. Because of the shallow waters of the alleged wreck site, an Argentinian recreational dive group was contacted to investigate the site, only to find a naturally occurring bottom structure. Since then about a dozen other suspected wreck sites have been investigated, with only the wreck of an old barge being discovered.

Former Senior Archivist Bernard Cavalcante (since retired) of the United States Naval Historical Center told me severay years back, that in the 1960s a joint U.S. & Argentinian research team was sent to investigate these rumors, which were far more fresh in the memories of the local inhabitants of those areas around the Argentine coast. Many crazy rumors were investigated, including one about a small village inhabited by what had been described as recent European immigrants, whose young school children were said to 'goose-step' to school.

No evidence of German infiltration was revealed. No U-boat wrecks, nor coastal bunkers nor fuel dumps, nor rail-lines to storage facilities filled with 'submarine parts' were ever found. Likewise, there were no credible witnesses of alleged u-boat activities to be forthcoming for interviews.

I await the time when someone can produce a shred of tangible, credible evidence to support any of those long-standing rumors, as I will be the first person to offer my own savings, to mount the dive search and survey expedition to visit a heretofore unexplored phantom Argentine U-boat wreck.

Bets Regrads to All,

Paul