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Exploring a Sunken Canadian Warship | WWII Shipwreck
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August 25, 2023
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12:01Now PlayingHighlights of OceanXplorer's ROV exploration of the wreck of HMCS Athabaskan in the English Channel on August 15, 2023.
As OceanXplorer transited from Norway to Portugal, we stopped to map a shipwreck from the Second World War in the English Channel.
HMCS Athabaskan was a destroyer in the @RCNMRC. On April 29, 1944, just weeks before D-day, while patrolling the coast of Brittany, France, she Athabaskan was torpedoed by German boat T-24, 128 lives were lost and the vessel was destroyed.
The sinking of the Athabaskan was one of Canada’s greatest naval losses during the Second World War, making this visit of particular significance to the Royal Canadian Navy and to the families of the service members who were lost when the ship sank.
French Archeologist Jacques Ouchakoff, who located the wreck using a hand-launched ROV in 2002 (but was only able to find half of the ship) and OceanX expedition leader Mark Ward, whose grandfather was one of the Athabaskan crew members lost both joined us onboard.
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