Tomas Termote, maritime researcher: “That is emotional. Diving on the submarine itself, I have already dived a lot on wrecks and especially submarines, it remains something very special. But then to be able to dive with a descendant of one of the crew members on a historic wreck. That is the summit of a career.”
The UB-57 is ultimately the sailor grave of 29 German soldiers after sinking in 1918. The body of Armin’s great-grandfather later washed up in Zeebrugge.