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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Stop giving away spoilers! 
I've been fascinated by that, since Ballard's pictures show Bismarck buried up to the waterline, making it impossible to see any underwater damage. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the controversy is no closer to being solved than it ever was.
This documentary is the best I've seen.
It includes interviews with Ted Briggs and Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg. The Baron mentions the controversy and ends saying "You can say to both sides, ' You sank the Bismarck'". |
I could never understand why it was considered a controversy seeing as there was no way the Bismarck would of ever been a threat again. If the Germans didn't scuttle her, she would of eventually sunk anyway or at most required a few more torpedo's to finish her off. Scuttling just hastened the inevitable.