The Finnish listening station on Kallbåda records under water explosions 14th September 1942. Lieutenant Erkki Palosuo’s Tupolev SB-10 naval bomber is soon sent to find the cause. Meanwhile on the Gulf of Finland, a Soviet submarine crew is working desperately. Their boat has hit German anti-submarine mines...
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This webisode is about Russian sub Sch-311 "Кумжа" which was found from Gulf of Finland in Baltic Sea at the end of summer 2012.
It tells the the story what happened to Sch-311 and is a portrait of Mikhail Ivanov, founder of the wreck. Going this deep into wreckhunting, the actual diving plays a minor part. It takes dedication and endurance to read through archives and endless days of scanning with sonar at sea. Cooperating with historians and experts is often vital for success.
To understand what happened to the wrecks, one also needs to understand how they worked, how was the crew trained and what were their most likely actions during different scenarios.
The film covers also interest that wrecks still have even today, 70 years after the war. Not only for the wreck diver community but to the nations and history writing.
For more information please visit:
www.diversofthedark.com/sch-311-кумжа/
Story: Janne Suhonen & Antti Apunen
Archive Research: Miroslav Morozov & Mikhail Ivanov
Underwater Filming: Janne Suhonen & Alexey Vazhinskiy
Surface Filming: Janne Suhonen & Jukka Nurminen
Dive Team: Antti Apunen, Harri Urho, Jarmo Kuusinen, Mikhail Ivanov,
Pasi Lahtinen, Sami Paakkarinen & Veli Elomaa
Lights: Scubamafia
www.scubamafia.com
Animation: Maippi Ketola
Narrator: Lee McPherson
Sound Mastering: Lauri Turjansalo