Gasperados diver Dominic Robinson said: “Once we started moving around it and I started seeing the individual features – I saw the snorkel, I saw the conning tower, all those kind of things – I knew that we were going to get the video needed to identify it, so I was really pleased about that.”
After its attack, the U-boat was left leaking underwater.
Its commander waited for as long as possible before making the decision to blow the tanks and bring the sub up to give its crew a last chance of survival.
Robinson said they “managed to get it to the surface” before getting into their life rafts for survival.
“They were bobbing around in the sea and then the very next day they were found by British aircraft, British vessels and then taken away to the prisoner of war camp,” he explained.
