The U-Boats and Venezuelan Oil
Reuters ran an article in July 2020 about Venezuelan oil production, stating that it was at its lowest level since 1943. The collapse is...
Stephen O. Sears
- Aug 5, 2019
The Sunniland Limestone – Why is there oil below the Everglades and not Orlando?
The occurrence of oil in peninsular Florida, at least as far as discoveries to date, is restricted to fields in the southernmost part of...
Stephen O. Sears
- Jul 19, 2019
The Discovery of German U-Boat U-166 in the Gulf of Mexico
The German U-Boat U-166 was sunk by a US Navy patrol boat in 1942. The Navy thought at the time that the U-Boat had escaped, and its...
Stephen O. Sears
- Jun 30, 2019
U Boats in the Gulf of Mexico: Torpedoed Tankers and the Oil Supply during WWII
On May 5, 1942 the German submarine U-507 sank two tankers, the Munger T. Ball and the Cudahy, in the Gulf of Mexico west of the Everglades.