Off the coast of Japan found the wreckage of boats kamikaze during the Second world war

Off the Japanese coast at a depth of 32 meters found the wreckage Sinha — boats, which the local kamikaze used during the Second world war. About it reports The Daily Mail.

Boats were stuffed with explosives. Them sailors row out to sea to blow up the enemy ships.

Of the boat found a 79-year-old head of a diving company Hiroyuki Arakawa. He found the engine about a metre and remnants of explosives.

As the newspaper notes, the moment in the area were flooded Sinha with the local military base №59, passed more than 70 years. On the basis of the placed 53 single and five twin engine boat capable of moving up to 250 kilograms of explosives and two torpedoes.

Sinje usually made of plywood. During the Second world war was made about 6.2 thousand of these boats reach speeds up to 30 knots. Made from durable material boats often do not achieve their goals.

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