U714 - Eyemouth

German VII C Uboat - U714 Eyemouth. This submarine was first dived and identified by Stevie Adams of SQSAC in 2006. Sunk in March 1945 by depth charge, this is a classic 'Das Boot' uboat. A very intact wreck. This was my first dive on the wreck. :)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• uboat
• eyemouth
• Das
• Boot
• submarine
• Marinequest

[GamerPro661]

What was the depth?

[Graemeg68]

Seabed was 55-60m.  Top of wreck 51-56m depending upon the state of tide.

[ladebongo]

Please remenber: In this wreck died 50 german soldier. Please remeber when you dive this wreck.

thank you

[craggon13]

superb,well done,like the cutback`s to the old photo`s.The voice sounded like the old fella on Beatles Yellow Submarine!was this intentional?

[aure232]

@dave581000 Hedgehogs. Deadly new things...

[aure232]

@dave581000 There was very small chance to survive (at least some) getting out of sub and surfacing when sub were crippled on bottom but low enough. Some survived this, many perished. There was special equipment developed for that, they flooded ship reason to get able open hatch and had to be very fast then. If temperature, current, depth, training etc. weren't for their favor they died in process...At least this was faster than slowly die inside crippled sub.

[aure232]

1:51 photo is, i think, IX type u-boat. Hatch is open... Poor crew prolly did try to take a little chance escaping than slowly die down there. It were done before, some even survived...

[law101]

so how deep is this wrek at?

[LeboDrzwi]

How is name of first song?

[dave581000]

Any idea why hatches were open?

[dave581000]

I think you'll find that the SA ship was not fitted with deapth charges but the new forward firing contact mortors. According to the offical records they picked up the boat at the depth of 50 m fired full barrage of 20 motors one hit(only explode when they hit target) target stopped movement after that. The British navel vessal went to the location the next day and dropped deapthcharges.