Dover Strait U-Boat wreck being relocated

摘要

The delicate operation to relocate the wreck of a WW1 German submarine began mid-June in the Dover Strait, the world's busiest shipping lane. The UB38 has laid on the seabed for 90 years but has recently been identified as a potential risk to shipping now that increasingly deeper draught vessels are navigating the southwest bound lane of the Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme. The wreck lies at a swept depth of 23.5m whereas the minimum clearance depth required is 26.5m to align it with the surrounding depth.