LONDON — Marine engineers working on a $1.6-billion subsea power cable off the west coast of Scotland have found the wreck of a German submarine from the First World War. Experts have identified the 100-year-old vessel as UB-85 using sonar images, Scottish Power, the U.K. unit of Iberdrola SA, said in a statement. Scottish Power, with National Grid Plc, are building the 2,200-megawatt cable to carry electricity from wind farms in Scotland to England. “In the waters of the Irish Sea there are at least 12 British and German submarines known to have sunk,” said Innes McCartney, an historian and nautical archeologist who has been working with Scottish Power to identify the submarine. “The images we get back from the subsea scans are incredibly detailed, but we obviously need to be aware of what lies beneath before we can start laying a power cable,” said Peter Roper, a project manager for Western Link at Scottish Power.

Source: National Post October 19, 2016 12:22 UTC