The U-boat That Wasn't Where It Was Supposed to Be

An unidentified submarine had been sitting on the seabed in the English Channel for decades, charted as a First World War sailing vessel. Then, in July 2026, Ian Taylor and the Skin Deeper team dived it and discovered something very different. It was a German U boat. A few weeks later, the Gasperados headed out aboard Integrity with Abyss Charters to see if we could identify it. The first attempt ended with a missed wreck and a very long look at an empty seabed. The following day, Guy Trees and I finally reached the submarine in 70 metres of water. What we found pointed strongly towards one particular boat, U 672, a Type VIIC submarine lost in July 1944. The problem was that according to the accepted historical record, U 672 was lost nearly 40 nautical miles away. In this video I follow the evidence from the wartime records to the seabed, including research by Innes McCartney, the unusual position where U 672's entire crew was recovered, and the physical features we found on the wreck. Those clues include the early ball float Schnorchel, the absence of later rescue dinghy containers, distinctive casing openings, and the remains of the extraordinary German Aphrodite radar decoy system. I also speak to German U boat historian Axel Niestlé, who has spent decades studying German submarine losses and construction details. His assessment of the evidence gives us a very high degree of confidence that this wreck finally has its correct name. U 672. Huge thanks to Ian Taylor and Skin Deeper for sharing their discovery, to my fellow Gasperados, Axel Niestlé and Michael Lowrey for the research that helped make the identification possible, and to Ivor Farrell and Abyss Charters aboard Integrity.