Three BAREG members spent six days traveling across northern Germany and western Denmark to visit two U-boats, maritime museums, the famous U-boat Archive, and a massive Atlantic Wall bunker. The U-boats visited were the Wilhem Bauer (updated image in gallery), […]
BAREG Spring 2025 Update II – 6 MAY 2025
1. Recent activities: A) Quarry Gardens Recce – 27 APR 2025 Eleven divers participated in reconnaissance dives in two decommissioned soapstone quarries at the Quarry Gardens (QG) in Schuyler, VA. The purpose of the dives [...]
BAREG Spring 2025 Update – 17 APR 2025
Recent Activities (Photos below) A. Spring Buoy Ops: BAREG placed the restored U-1105 on station at the wreck site for the 2025 dive season. Five BAREG divers/boat crew supported buoy ops the weekend of 29 [...]
BAREG 2024 End-of-Year Message
Overview of 2024 BAREG had a good year in 2024, we made the first BAREG trip to the U-869, a recce of the USS Katahdin wreck site, and collaborated with the Naval History and Heritage [...]
2024 Buoy Ops Finex
Three BAREG divers, supported by three M/V My Purpose Holds boat crew, retrieved the U-1105 wreck site mooring buoy from its station in the lower Potomac River. Weather was fair topside, water T was 41 [...]
BAREG Fall 2024 Update
NAS Training In mid-October, three BAREG members completed Nautical Archaeology Society skills training. Congratulations to Billie, Kevin, and João. As always, many thanks to Troy for tutoring the class and spending hours in the dinghy [...]
BAREG Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) Class 2-24
Congratulations to the three BAREG members who completed NAS skills training the weekend of 5 & 6 October. Many thanks to the instructor, Troy N. for leading the third BAREG NAS class. BAREG is an [...]
BAREG Update II – Late Summer 2024
U-869 – 25 AUG Five BAREG divers made our group’s first dive on the U-869, the wreck made famous in the book Shadow Divers. The U-869 lies 56 miles offshore from Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey, [...]
BAREG Update – Late Summer 2024
U-853 – 13&14 JUL The first of two planned trips to the U-853 was partially impacted by weather (WX). Saturday was blown out, but the four BAREG divers squeezed in two dives late Sunday afternoon. [...]
BAREG 2024 Summer Update
1. U-1105 Dives On Saturday, 29 June 2024, six BAREG divers dove the U-1105 in the lower Potomac River from the M/V My Purpose Holds. Conditions topside were good, much better than the NWS forecast [...]
U-1105 Fall Buoy Operations
Over the weekend of 2&3 December 2023, seven BAREG members conducted fall buoy operations and retrieved the U-1105 mooring buoy from the wreck site and returned it to Tall Timbers Marina for cleaning and maintenance. [...]
Mid-Autumn Update 2023
Activities USS Oriskany (CV-34) Dive Trip, 23 & 24 September BAREG made a second trip to the Oriskany this year. Two divers made the trip to Florida’s Gulf Coast to explore the world’s largest artificial [...]
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