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wreckrapthe 42,682 merchant ships thattraveled between North Americaand Britain carrying much neededwar supplies for the Allies, only 438were sunk by u-boats.This isn’t to say that the damagecaused by u-boats wasn’tsignificant. It was. Canada,for example, lost 22 navy shipsdefending the convoys. And,more than 4,000 Canadian sailorsand merchant seamen diedduring “the Battle of the Atlantic”.It was the longest campaign ofTHIS PAGE: You don’t haveto be a diver to appreciatethe wreck of the U-532LOWER LEFT: The replicafiberglass u-boat underconstruction anyone looking for such if asked. Iknow this from first-hand experience.U-boats are a good example of whymarine archaeology is important. Ithelps set history straight, separatingfact from fiction—reality fromperception ■ — Rob RondeauMarine ArchaeologistPROCOM Marine Survey &Archaeology WWII.the seafloor confirms this.In fact, Germany’s u-boat effort was And, theGerman governmentan abject military failure. More than twothirdsof its u-boats, and their crews, didn’t with its Nazi past. It turns a blindof today wants nothing to do survive the war. The fact that we areeyewhen u-boat wrecks are increasingly finding so many of them on found and expressly forbids 18 X-RAY MAG : 34 : 2010 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED