U-Boat deep dive (150m+) off the coast of Portugal?

[jpnovais1]

Hello all,

I did my Open Water Certification and Advanced Certification in Sri Lanka a few months ago and, since I am Portuguese and the owner of the school was Brazilian, we connected and got to talking a bit about his experience. He had worked in Portugal a few years ago in the mainland in the North where I am from and, he mentioned that there's a U-Boat wreck at a depth of 153 meters there and that THAT was his deepest dive. Only thing is, I can't really find anything mentioning anything like this.
Not on official government mappings of the sea bed nor on archeological maps in the Bureau of Archeology's archives... Nothing zilch

Does anyone have an idea of what he was talking about?

Cheers

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Have you tried wrecksite.eu?

Could be:

WRECKSITE - U-566 SUBMARINE 1941-1943

U-566 SUBMARINE 1941-1943, wreck, wreck database

wrecksite.eu

WRECKSITE - U-963 SUBMARINE 1943-1945

U-963 SUBMARINE 1943-1945, wreck, wreck database

wrecksite.eu

 

[paddydiver]

153 m dive on a submarine would probably be in the top 20 wreck dives ever carried out by diver. Add to that so far off the coast of Portugal it would be an extremely difficult dive requiring a lot of support and would be rightly famous in the Portugal dive scene. Are you sure he wasn't talking or is he a pretty famous Tek Diver? There's a regularly dived U Boat off Porto but it's more like 30+ m.....

 

[Nick_Radov]

I suspect this is a misunderstanding or tall tale. Nothing matches on the list of known deepest wreck dives.

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indepthmag.com

 

[evandroairton]

There is indded an U-Boat, U 1277, off Portugal coast, it's 30 some meters deep and could be dived.
Stands in front of Porto.

U-Boat 1277

Peça de teatro recorda rendição em Angeiras dos 45 marinheiros alemães do submarino.

www.cm-matosinhos.pt

Never dove there