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Today, we are diving on a sonar
anomaly on the Blake Plateau.

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I see something. Here we go. I
think we got something. We are

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looking for the Bloody Marsh
which was a oil tanker sunk by

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a U boat during World War Two.
The record we think this might

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be is the the oil tank of
Bloody Marsh which was finished

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construction in 1943 in the
middle of a push to get more

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tankers up and hunting across
the Atlantic to Europe in World

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War Two. While it was steaming
off the coast of South

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Carolina, a torpedo from the U
boat U66 struck the aft

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portion of the side destroying
the engine room and killing

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three of the crewmen. The first
one struck the engine room

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which is at the stern and the
crew started to abandon the

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ship in life rafts.

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It was reportedly sunk very
quickly.

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Speaks to the destructive power
of World War two.

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This wreck is on NOAA's
potentially polluting wrecks

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list. It was carrying over
106000 barrels of oil.