Lost U-Boats of WWII

These guys are pretty clueless when it comes to salvage diving.

No retrieval/find bags on their dives? No system for floating finds for others to pick up? Instead - find a single item and rush to the surface and back to the boat. How many hours did they waste diving down their guide lines only to rush back with a single item? Total Amateur Hour.

Artificial deadline. These guys could be diving nearly year round outside hurricane season. So, of course, they don't start diving until just before hurricane season...

No sidescan sonar to zero in on targets? Total low budget operation.

Oh, and by all means, pull unknown, unexploded ordinance out from reef systems. That's a career limiting move. All it takes is one unstable shell and you get instant chum.

This is a mildly interesting story, and I can see the plausibility of their theories, however, there is a very real flaw in their approach that makes it less credible in my eyes. Repeatedly, they are finding and casually handling, what they believe to be munitions from WWII. In reality, this would be an incredibly DANGEROUS thing for them to do!

Any such unexploded ordinance, submerged for 70-plus years, would be highly unstable and unpredictable. It might be totally inert and safe to handle... it might explode in your hand with the slightest jar! You simply can't know, which is one of many reasons why diving the wreck sites of military ships is often controlled or discouraged.

That they repeatedly do so, without any comment on the potential hazard, leads me to wonder if they are simply uninformed, reckless, or well aware that what they are handling is not real?

I guess Darrell Miklos got tired of looking for "Cooper's Treasure," his previous show on the History Channel. He's moved on from lost Spanish treasure galleons seen from outer space, to "lost" Nazi U-boats, supposedly refitted to haul stolen European wealth to South America.

Seeing that his previous series was pretty much a bust, it makes one wonder what possessed the execs at History Channel to fund another of his pipe dreams?

A lot of this is the same sort of stuff you saw in "Cooper's Treasure." Guys riding around in a boat dragging a magnetometer. Guys scuba diving, sweeping the sea floor with handheld metal detectors. Guys not being able to do anything due to weather conditions.

Nothing new. Nothing interesting. Nothing to see here, that you haven't seen before.

As usual these real time expeditions is a waste of time. So far nothing of any consequence has been found and the dialog assumptions are strictly played for the camera. As typical of the History Channel as with The Curse of Oak Island NOTHING IS EVER FOUND. History Channel!!!! Why do you continue to offer there boring and unfruitful shows? Are they cheap to produce?

I never did watch the Curse of Oak Island because I knew what to expect but I really did hope the Lost U Boats would restore my faith in the History Channel. MOVE ON!!!! Offer shows that have some sense of satisfaction as in a learning experience. Now that would be worth watching.

The submarine tales that Miklos' tells, are somewhat plausible? But the direct evidence, that you can hold in your hand? Seems too obvious it was planted? Also the fact, some objects that were found,even they... could have been thrown overboard at any time in history, from a passing ship well after 1945 by anyone. The oceans/seas are full of garbage! Ugh! I give this TV series a click bait rating of 2 stars...only for the title which is catchy "LOST U BOATS OF WWll"...a mere "dud" like some of the torpedoes that failed to go off during that era..it is sad that the history channel is regurgitating past history with a "feely" script.... I feeeeel that this happened in history. BAH-HUMBUG....no body wants to work hard anymore, they just want the quick $$$