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Stole stuff?

You mean recovered artifacts? And yes, I, like many other professional divers have recovered artifacts from the U853, (and many other wrecks) which lies in 130 ft of water 8 miles south east of Block Island. In the early and mid 90's, I conducted hundreds of dives with students and professionals teaching them about the history of Narragansett bay, and took hundreds of people by the hand, underwater to see and touch history.

In fact, one of the the things I recovered was a box of Nazi submarine depth measuring devices used by the wolf pacs. They look like a mini torpedo and they are dropped to the bottom. The time was measured before the explosion was heard and they then calculated the depth of the water. On the day that I recovered them from inside the wreck in the officers ward room under 2 ft of mud. I contacted the explosives expert from the Warwick Police Department, Officer Chris Mattheson who now proudly has added this piece of history into his collection of historical artifacts.

So Mechanicalman22, aka Warwickman, aka Unionthug, aka, StevieD, you should actually at one point in your life be proud of some kind of an accomplishment. Your lack thereof is certainly cause for you to anonymously and without fact, attempt to disparage an individual who in comparison, you have yet to learn all of the things that he has already forgotten.

One last note. One of the documents that I recovered now sits in a museum in Paris that displays the personal historical items of the worlds most famed ocean explore, Capt. Jacques Yves Cousteau. He received it from me on his 85th birthday. It was displayed on the wall in his office in front of his desk until his passing. May he rest in peace for his passions for the ocean have forever changed mankind.