Military divers of Ferrol will withdraw today a torpedo of the Second World war found in Udra

A unit of the divers' nucleus of the Navy, with base in Ferrol, will deal today with the retreat of a torpedo G-7, located by the scuba divers of the club of diving Ons opposite to Udra, in the parish buenense of Beluso. The bullet is very ancient and for his characteristics it might date of the epoch of the Second World war or immediately later years.

The scuba divers located the remains of the torpedo to approximately twenty meters deep and communicated his find to the marine authorities, which contacted with the Navy. Sources of Defense confirmed yesterday that the weapon found in the waters buenenses was a torpedo G-7, which is a model of German manufacture.

This one submarine weapon was used decades ago, between other purposes, for the military trainings of the Naval School of Marín. Nevertheless, the sources consulted yesterday could not need the concrete origin of the unusual bullet.

The military divers realized yesterday an immersion to locate and to prepare the remains of the torpedo for his hoisted one and rescue of the waters. A spokesman of the Navy added that the bullet was «very damaged» and that it was divided in three pieces.

The intention of the military institution is to proceed today to extract the bullet of laugh and to move it up to the Naval School. The remains of this one weapon will stay under the care of the military institution be marinated.

Sources of the Naval School confirmed the surprise that supposed the find of the torpedo. The Udra waters, precisely for his big natural variety and his wealth piscícola, have been brushed numerous times throughout last century. Nevertheless, nothing was making to think that they should preserve between the rocks the remains of a bullet of these characteristics.

The most solid hypothesis to clarify the presence of this bullet in Marín is the achievement of tests of training of the pupils of the Naval School towards ends of the decade of 1940. The last throwings registered in the naval base took place in 1947. It is not the first time that bullets discover in the Galician waters. In 2008 the scuba divers of the club buenense found part of the ammunition of a ship sunk in 1940 in Ounce.