A World War II ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging.
Greater than 100 soldiers were killed when a German submarine U-861 sank Brazil’s ‘Vital de Oliveira’ in 1942, becoming the country’s only vessel to be destroyed by enemy forces.
This piece of history was believed to have been lost endlessly despite efforts to acquire the precise location of the wreckage.
That’s until brothers, Jose Luíz and Everaldo Popermeyer Meriguete, got an odd call by a fisherman.
It was all by probability. The pair were attempting to assist the person whose net had develop into stuck at the underside of the ocean.
Unable to resolve the difficulty themselves, they Jose and Everaldo drafted their friend, deep-sea diver, Domingos Afonso Jório, who eventually found that the web was entangled in a cannon.
They informed Brazil’s Navy upon the invention in 2011, but heard nothing in regards to the ship.
Authorities finally confirmed that the wreckage of the ‘Vital de Oliveira’ has been traced using sonar imaging.
A multibeam echo sounder and side scan sonar were deployed to map the ocean floor and create three-dimensional models.
The invention of the hull of the sunken ship took place on the morning of January 16, about 50 miles off the coast of Macaé, and was aided by local divers.
‘Vital de Oliveira’ was inbuilt 1910 and incorporated into the Brazilian Navy in 1931.
It remained energetic until it was attacked on the night of July 19, 1944, by the German Navy, becoming the one Brazilian military ship to be sunk during World War II.
Its role within the war was mainly in transporting military personnel and likewise supplies along the Brazilian coast.
Similarly to this ship, there are greater than 500 World War II-era wrecks off the coast of Brazil.
Similar sonar technology is getting used increasingly to discover such vessels.
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