Nazis' Graf Zeppelin Might Have Been Found In Baltic Sea
Richard Rittierodt - All Headline News Staff Writer Warsaw, Poland (AHN) - On Thursday, a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea has been identified by Poland's Navy as almost certainly being the Graf Zeppelin, Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier. Earlier this month, the Polish oil company Petrobaltic had discovered the shipwreck about 38 miles north of the northern port city of Gdansk. Lt. Cmdr. Bartosz Zajda, a spokesman for the Polish Navy, stated that the Polish Navy sent a hydrographic survey vessel on Tuesday to check on the shipwreck. Dariusz Beczek, the Navy commander of the vessel the ORP Arctowski, said, "We are 99 percent sure - even 99.9 percent - that these details point unambiguously to the Graf Zeppelin. " However, naval experts will not say that it is certainly the Nazi carrier until they have found its name on the side of the ship. Even though it never saw action, the Graf Zeppelin was the only aircraft carrier for Germany during World War 2. It was launched in 1938 and was taken over by the Russians in 1945 after the Germans were defeated. It was last seen in 1947 and the ship's fate has been a mystery since then. Zajda also mentioned that the shipwreck will absolutely remain on the sea bed. Zajda said, "technically it's impossible to pull it out of the water."
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