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On June 2, 1918, not long after the United States became involved in World War I, the German submarine U-151 sank six ships off the New Jersey coast in a single day. A group of local divers and shipwreck explorers has located and dived several of these wrecks, all of them below 200', and has positively identified the _Carolina_. The _Carolina_ was a passenger liner, the U-151's last victim of the day. Her sinking resulted in the death of thirteen people when one of the lifeboats flipped over during a stormy night adrift at sea. These were the first fatalities attributable to U-boats off the U.S. coast. The U-151 had a very successful mission, laying mines, disrupting communications, and sinking a total of 20 ships (another three were attacked, but were later salvaged) in just under a month's time off the mid-Atlantic coast. I have placed more information on the U-151, Black Sunday, and the ongoing effort to locate and identify the remaining wrecks on my web site <URL:http://www.panix.com/~tab/BlackSunday>, which I will update as the dives continue. There are also several images there of artifacts which were brought up from one of the wrecks which has not yet been identified, in hopes that someone out there might be able to provide some assistance. --tab (not one of the abovementioned divers) -- Tracey [Baker] Wagner tab@pa*.co* *** NJ SCUBA Diving Info at http://www.panix.com/~tab/scuba.html *** "Far beneath the sea, the past and the present come together as one, and we have been allowed to touch them both." -- Brad Sheard, _Beyond Sportdiving_
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