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Ghostly Ship Graveyards from Around the World [Photo Essay]
io9 ^
| 5/26/13
| Vincze Miklós
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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
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posted on
05/27/2013 8:52:43 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
sometimes, nasty old barnacle encrusted tugboats end up as Secretary of State
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posted on
05/27/2013 9:00:26 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: BenLurkin
really cool pictures, BTW
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posted on
05/27/2013 9:03:23 AM PDT
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digger48
To: digger48
To: BenLurkin
Thanks - good photographs!
If they wanted to clean these up they could just put it on craigslist and the tweakers would scrap it! :)
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posted on
05/27/2013 9:16:26 AM PDT
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2013 9:18:27 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Darkness Hates the Light)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2013 9:55:58 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:19:31 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: G Larry
The story of the Glomar Explorer is a thip.
It was a CIA operation fronted by Howard Hughs to secretly recover Soviet submarine K 129.
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:23:37 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:37:02 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:41:22 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:43:42 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: G Larry
My brother used to live ride down the road from Suisun. He had a 14 ft Bayliner, open bow that we used to take fishing. Boating around those big ships is surreal.
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:45:15 AM PDT
by
sheana
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posted on
05/27/2013 10:45:52 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: BenLurkin
When I was in submarine school in New London, Connecuit in the early 60’s...some of those midget Japanese subs were on display around the grounds of the school. Some small German subs were there too.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:00:26 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I did not know you were a bubblehead.
That sort of explains your contingency plan attitude.
We seem to have an extraordinary amount of bubbleheads on FR.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:14:25 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: BenLurkin
Very surprised that the largest and positively radiant cemetery of all , the Kola Peninsula was not shown
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:14:51 AM PDT
by
Cyman
To: BenLurkin
These rusted out ships have always given me the creeps.
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:19:31 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: BenLurkin
Obama's Ship of State:
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:29:53 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2013 11:35:02 AM PDT
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Slyfox
(The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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