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Originally Posted by Catfish
Only managed to watch the third part today, so this coating really seems to have been effective.
From the divers' film there is a hole at the rear right end, and they propose that the U-480 struck a mine - but at the rear ?
Did it make a turn to touch it ? I mean running straight it probably would not have touched it at that place, had it been a magnetic mine it would have detonated at the hull's biggest diameter ?
So couldn't this have been a Mk 24 Fido "mine" following the boat's propellor noise, just like the german Falke or Zaunkoenig torpedoes ?
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Didn't watch it, but mines were attached to cables, often subs ran into the cables and dragged the mine to them or the mine cable got hooked, with the forward motion of the sub the mine was dragged aft. Many subs had a series of cables that would not let the mine cable hook, hopefully just slide off to the side. Several US subs tell the story of hearing mine cables scrapping along the side of the boat, luckily the cable slide off before the mine was dragged into the sub.