The B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into Gander Lake during a training exercise on the night of September 4, 1943 killing 4 people.
It was a day 79 years in the making as a team of divers headed out onto Gander Lake, near Gander, Newfoundland on Monday in hopes of finding a piece of lost Canadian history.“It’s very intimidating, you can’t see down more than three or four feet, it was like Coca-Cola,” said diver and cinematographer Maxwel Hohn.
On Monday, Sept. 5, Hohn was chosen to make the first dive down, about 45 metres to where they hoped to find the plane. An exerpt from Hohn’s account of the dive reads: “At the time of the accident, military hard hat divers found the aircraft resting on a ledge in Gander Lake and attempted to attach cables to the fuselage. While recovering the body of Squadron Leader John G. MacKenzie, the aircraft slipped off the ledge and sunk to a depth beyond the divers’ range. Due to poor visibility, extreme depth and cold water, the military abandoned recovery and salvage efforts after twelve days.
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