Forgotten Shipwreck Tragedy FOUND After 50 Years

In July 1971, the French trawler Thierry collided with the German cargo ship Régine in heavy fog south of Ireland. The impact virtually cut her in two. Skipper Maxime Guiochet was trapped in the wheelhouse. His last words: "Save me! Save me!" More than fifty years later, the Gasperados Dive Team found her — at 90 metres — while searching for the USCG Tampa. The Thierry sailed from La Rochelle. She carried a crew of ten. When the Régine struck her out of the fog, the trawler was gone in minutes. Two men — Skipper Guiochet and crewman Samuel Fradet — never made it home. Eight survivors were pulled from the water by the same ship that had sunk them. And then, largely, the world moved on. This is a small tragedy. There are no famous names here, no great warships, no battles. Just a fisherman and a deckhand, a fog-shrouded collision in the middle of the sea, and a wreck that has sat undisturbed on the seabed for over half a century. Just one more wreck amongst the thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, that exist around the world. All of them with stories. Stories that deserve to be told. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *CHAPTERS* 00:00:00 Searching for Tampa... and Finding Something Else 00:03:25 The Long Journey Offshore 00:06:45 First Look at the Mystery Wreck 00:11:15 The Crewman's Final Cries for Help 00:18:00 Hunting for Identification Evidence 00:22:15 Solving the Mystery 00:29:45 The Impact Revealed 00:35:10 Deep Water Decompression