Clear Air, fresh chilly water, deeply green trees and cliffs reaching more than 300 meters high – the Koala Bay near Murmansk. Here U-434 was waiting for his last big journey through the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea to Hamburg. In August 2002, finally the moment came when a finish ocean-going tug towed the 90.16 meters giant out in the open sea – towards Hamburg. However it was not long, before U-434 was stopped by the Russian intelligence service and held up for another five days before it could continue its journey. Because of that delay, U-434 could nowhere be found on the