Santi Finding the Eagle - another search for the legendary ship

The participants of the project “Santi Odnaleźć Orła” (Finding the Eagle) in the summer will go again to the North Sea to conduct another search for the legendary Polish submarine ORP “Orzeł”. The vessel was lost without a trace in May 1940. Since then, many have tried to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the Polish submariner, but with no results. Will it be different this time?

This year’s expedition will be already the fourth approach of the team operating under the banner of “Santi Finding the Eagle”. At the same time it will be the third consecutive approach assuming the sinking of the Eagle as a result of an accidental bombing by an RAF plane.

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[blockquote style=”2″]”Queries conducted over the past year in various archives, including the British, have resulted in the discovery of further documents that make the theory that the ship fell victim to a fratricidal attack by the British Air Force on 3 June 1940 even more plausible,” said Stachura. – Stachura said[/blockquote].

This is only one of the possible hypotheses which the Polish searchers have chosen as the most probable and which they are trying to confirm with their search. Two other theories, which are also highly probable, speak of the ship sinking as a result of a shipwreck or after the vessel entered a minefield.

[blockquote style=”2″]”I persist with the second theory. I have recently arrived at further documents which confirm that such an attack by an English aircraft on a hitherto unidentified ship did take place, and that one ship operating in the North Sea at the time, which did not return to base at the time, was the Eagle,” Jando said.”[/blockquote]

The “Santi To Find The Eagle” project is financed entirely from private funds. If you would like to support the search for the legendary Polish ship, you can do so by visiting the organiser’s website.

The ship set sail on 23 May 1940 from the port of Rosyth in Scotland. It was supposed to patrol the area of North Sea for 2 weeks. However, she did not return from the fateful, sixth patrol. The ship lost 63 sailors, including 3 Britons.

SANTI Project Finding the Eagle

“SANTI Odnaleźć Orła” (SANTI is the name of the company producing clothing for divers, the head of which is Tomasz Stachura, and which is the title sponsor of the project ‘SANTI Odnaleźć Orła’) is a long-term project – a private initiative of a group of several people – professional divers, experts in hydrography and history.

Tomasz Stachura – Head of the “SANTI Find the Eagle” Project

Tomasz Stachura is one of the most active wreck divers in the Baltic Sea. He specialises in underwater photography of wrecks at great depths. He has taken thousands of underwater photographs of Baltic wrecks. A photo by him made it to the covers of several issues of National Geographic in 2014 and 2015. Member of Explorers Club New York.

Source: santiodnalezcorla.pl, tvn24.pl