Posted on 05/27/2013 8:52:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Where do boats go when they die? Sometimes they end up in vast ship graveyards, sometimes craggy, foggy places where ships have met their doom, and sometimes spots where ships are deliberately left to rust. There's a quiet beauty to many of these graveyards and their resting inhabitants.
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CSA H L Hunlley
An even earlier submarine, American Diver, sank with it's crew and remains out in the bay here somewhere unknown.
How can this be? Algore and thousands of scientists say that's impossible!
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Never mind. The “Aral Sea” is a lake.
It's a man-made ecological disaster. The Soviets reversed the water of the river that once fed the Aral Sea. I'm reminded of the Salton Sea in California.
Toxic dust blows off the bottoms of the dried seas.
BUMP must have some of these pictures.
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When I lived in the SF Bay area I took my Cub Scout troop on a tour of a midget sub moored in Alameda, CA. We also toured a US sub — a small one. I was a lot younger then, but I still had difficulty climbing up and down the ladder into the heart of the sub. I couldn’t believe how small the bunks were and how tight the quarters. Nobody could stretch out full length.
I had 8 boys in that group — all good friends — yet they got into actual fistfights from being on board the sub for just a short while. It must take a powerfully strong psyche to endure submarine service without going bonkers. Tough duty.
One of the comments at the link references a large ship breaking yard at Alang, India.
I count over 100 ships beached on google satellite.
Interesting.
“It’s ours, in the Sacramento River.”
But that’s not a graveyard. Those ships are mothballed, not scrapped or scuttled.
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