A look at the German U-Boat U-166 that is lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. br br The video is put to the album of Pink Floyd's Wish TYou Were here........ br br br Sunken German U-Boat Found in Gulf of Mexico br June 10, 2001 br br The wreckage of a World War II German submarine has been found 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and the discovery may rewrite a bit of wartime history. br BP and Shell Oil Company, which had been surveying the gulf floor for an oil pipeline, announced the discovery of the U-166, which was sunk in 1942 after it torpedoed an American ship, on Friday. br ''This is the find of a lifetime, it really is,'' said Robert Church, a marine archaeologist with C&C Technologies, which identified the wreckage about 45 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. br An airplane was long thought to have sunk the U-166 in 1942. The plane bombed a submarine on Aug. 1, 1942, two days after the U-166 sank the Robert E. Lee, an American passenger freighter. But the location of the submarine suggested that the Robert E. Lee's Coast Guard escort sank the U-166, said Jack Irion, a marine archaeologist with the United States Minerals Management Service.