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...skipper was Lieut. Bernard de Truchis de Lays, 34, who had served for two years as executive officer of the Minerve but had been transferred a few months before she was lost. At 7:13, the Eurydice sent her last message: she was diving in calm seas off Cape Camarat, 35 miles east of Toulon. A few minutes later, a geophysical laboratory picked up the shock waves of a violent underwater explosion...
...hour and a half later La Sibylle had not surfaced, and the alarm was given. The entire squadron, its planes and helicopters criss-crossed the area. For five hours the search went on. Then pilots noted a large oil slick about six miles off Cape Camarat, near Toulon. Soundings were made; what seemed to be the wrecked submarine was located at a depth of 2,000 feet. All night searchlights swept the dark water, but there was really no hope of finding survivors: submarine escape gear is useless below a depth of 250 feet. Next morning the French navy announced...
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