Brazilian ship sunk by WWII U-Boat located
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·February 20, 2025kaivi
It seems to lie on the continental shelf, at a depth of abount 40 meters. Surprised it took so long to locate.
jeanlucas
I think it is mostly because it wasn't being looked for. WWII is not as present in Brazilian mainstream culture as it is in the US, for example.
dxdm
Brazilian ship sunk! By WWII U-boat! That happened a while ago, but we found the ship now.
What a headline! Is it mere clickbait, or beautiful art born from carelessness?
Edit: I think this is called a "garden path sentence", to make my comment a little bit more informative.
metalman
There has been a trend of "finding" things that nobody was looking for, now that there is an excess capacity to scan and then automaticaly analyise the data, people will be looking for ways to monitise that, even if it's just sending clicks to there advertainment platform, of course they are realy hopeing for a Spanish galleon, but are quite unlikely to publish that.... though the push will be on, as things like having side scan sonar attached to any old random ship is becoming a trivial expense, and routing ships traffic, in ever so slightly offset tracks, would also be trivial, the common occurance of ships having to wait off shore, in a holding patterns, provides another oportunity to gather data, for use in refining algorithms on known wrecks , fish, whales and whatever else is going on ,over 70% of the planet.....so, ya
Oh, I haven't heard about these in Brazilian news.
That's a nice find.
Some interesting points:
* This was the last Brazilian ship sunk during WWII
* Brazil was an US ally, providing raw materials, but mainly rubber after Asia trade routes were suspended by the Japanese
* If Brazil didn't become an US ally, there was a plan to invade the rubber producing area - known as Plan Rubber [1] - it was not necessary since Brazil joined the allies
* To warm up Brazilians public reception to a US partnership even Disney got involved (and Carmen Miranda!) creating the character Zé Carioca [2]
* Brazil sent 25k+ troops to the Italy front
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[1] Plan Rubber - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Rubber
[2] Zé Carioca - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carioca