TEC Dive on U-Boat BARS

The Soviet submarine, one of many used to prowl shipping lanes in the Baltic Sea during the war, was found at a depth of 136 meters (446 feet). ... The Baltic Sea is littered with wrecks from both World Wars which saw Russian and Soviet forces battled the German navy for control of the transport routes across it. The losses around the Bay of Danzig (Gdansk) were mostly due to very heavy mining operations by the British in 1944. This helped delay the deployment of the XXI boats in late 1944. 45 German U-boats lost in the Baltic, almost half of them lost through accidents 17 German U-boat lost through accidents in the Baltic.