Part of the past: This U-boat, pictured in Kiel Naval Base in Germany, is one of hundreds used during WWII
A diver searching for the bodies of three men who went missing in 2010 claims he made a shocking discovery – a German U-boat from World War II.
Brian Corbin said he found the submarine while he and his team were taking sonar images in the bottom of Churchill River in Labrador, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mr Corbin, a 50-year-old diver from Happy Valley Goose Bay in Newfoundland, is 100 per cent certain ship is a WWII relic.
The German Embassy in Ottawa confirmed up to 50 German submarines were not accounted for at the close of the Second World War.
U-boats, short for the German word meaning ‘Unterseeboot’ (under sea boat), were military submarines used in warfare in the two World Wars.
Newfoundland went to war in 1939 because of constitutional ties with the United Kingdom.
The story of this particular vessel is shrouded in mystery, it is possible the U-boat entered the river through a channel to the Atlantic Ocean.
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