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Hitler's Lost Sub
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Program Overview
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NOVA follows an American dive team trying to identify the wreck of a
German U-boat 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
The program:
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follows researchers as they spend more than six years diving to
the 230-foot- (70-meter) deep wreck searching for clues to its
identification.
depicts the challenges of deep-sea diving. -
documents changes in submarine design from the 1800s to after
WWII using diagrams, actual movie footage, and interviews with
surviving German submariners.
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provides accounts of what life was like on a submarine.
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outlines the use of submarines and their attack and defense
strategies in WWI and WWII.
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depicts Drumbeat, a German submarine operation that executed
attacks on American shipping along the Atlantic Coast during the
winter of 1941-1942.
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relates the Allies' development of technology, such as improved
radar and sonar, that played an important part in neutralizing
the success of German submarine warfare toward WWII's end.
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