Hohn added that the experience was eerie but rewarding. "Nothing was disturbed or touched or taken during the exploration, it was purely an image gathering dive," said Russell.Īn image of the wreckage is shown. The remains of the other three airmen are still in the wreckage. "At the time in 1943, navy divers were dispatched onto the aircraft to try to recover the bodies of the airmen," he said. "The crash happened within a small distance of the Gander Air Force Base," said Comox Valley diver Russell Clark. Its position was finally narrowed down in June using side-scan sonar. DECADE-LONG SEARCHĪ Newfoundland researcher had been looking for the aircraft for roughly a decade. "It’s been there since 1943 so I think it’s pretty secure where it is," he said. It’s kind of on a very, very steep slope," said Hohn. The initial dive on Monday was to scout out the wreckage and confirm it was there. There’s sadness with excitement because the crew did lose their lives," said Hohn.
"When you come across this wreckage, it’s a mix of feelings.
The B-24 Liberator bomber crashed in 1943, killing all four crewmembers on board. Five divers from Vancouver Island have been exploring parts of the East Coast that very few Canadians will ever see.ĭivers Maxwel Hohn and Russell Clark from the Comox Valley, along with three others from the island, are part of an international team that reached the underwater crash site of a Second World War bomber in Gander Lake, Newfoundland.
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