new planewreck near the island of Kea
 

new planewreck near the island of Kea (Aegean sea)

next springtime we`ll dive again. Is anybody interestet to join us?

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Prof.Dr. George Papatheodorou has delivered this evening new echo images of the wreck, of high definition and precise details for further investigations. From the outline of the wreck and all the new evidence emerged, we are now told that this is a boat with a length of 182 m, cut in two pieces, with more than one smokestack, having its stern to bow axis pointing toward the northeast.

......Aside from all this precise data, he informed us of the existence of an intact airplane laying at 400 meters ahead of the shipwreck. The aircraft, rendered accidentally from the side scan sonar,has a wind span of around 26 meters and a fuselage length of 20 meters. The fuselage is intact and its twin engines are distinguishable.

see more (in greek and english) and many pics
http://keaexpedition2008.wordpress.com/

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Sorry. link is now correct

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Looks like a B-25, the 12th AF flew these over Greece, eg 321th BG.

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Hello everybody

@ byron
Thanks for the introduction in the forum and the reference of our site www.keaexpedition2008.wordpress.com

We hope that the members of your forum are going to support us, regarding the identification of this specific airplane.
We plan to dive the airplane wreck during our new expedition and field research between the 25th of May and 7th of June 2009.

I do not really know weather the plane lays upside down or not, but I have the impression that may be a, so called, “Tante Ju” which reefers to a Junkers 52.

If I am wrong please feel free to correct me!!

Thanks in advance
DG