The site survey performed by RCAHMS suggests that the leak that forced U16 to surface may have occurred after running into a wreck located at the same site A large number of sources attribute this incident to U1 " Found after 70• READ MORE Found after 70 years, the wreck of U16 Mr Bondone, who began diving at the age of 18, is said to have discovered a number of other shipwrecks, including a UJ 28 German antiU16 The Nazi submarine that was sunk by its toilet Iiiish More precisely, the leak forced it to surface and it was sunk by allied bombs once on the surface Edit And like lgrebe says, the toilet may not have been the sole reason for the leak they may have struck an older wreck romaaeterna on
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