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The Hunt for the Notorious U-Boat UB-29
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The Hunt for the Notorious U-Boat UB-29
A wreck-diving archaeologist and his quest to discover a missing submarine
 
By Joshua Levine
 
May 2018
 

You get an idea before you even walk in his door that Tomas Termote’s life is bound up with the sea, or at any rate what lies beneath it. Outside his house in Ostend, on the Belgian coast, stands the biggest anchor you’ve ever seen—over 16 feet high, weighing five tons. It was hand-forged for an old British man-of-war, and a trawler hauled it up from the seabed of the English Channel, a stone’s throw from here.

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