Termote went down again and examined the U-boat's stern.
Yet only last summer Termote stumbled across his most important discovery yet.
It's not like the U-boats you find blown in
half where everybody dies immediately,” says Termote.
Termote started diving the icy English Channel
at age 14 with his father, Dirk, a retired hotelier.
Termote suggests that UB-29 hooked a mine with one of the twisted periscopes,
dragging it down directly onto its hull.
So when Termote went down for the first time last June,
maritime police were standing by and coastal radar had been alerted;
In the spring of 2017, Termote was checking Belgian hydrographic department
documents online to see if any previously charted wrecks had shifted on the seabed.
You get an idea before you even walk in his door that Tomas Termote's life is bound up with the sea, or at any rate what lies.
You get an idea before you even walk in his door that Tomas Termote's life is bound up with the sea,
or at any rate what lies beneath it.
Swimming around the bow, Termote saw that the top starboard torpedo tube
had been twisted and ripped in what must have been a massive explosion- UB II-class subs had two tubes on each side, one on top of the other.