You can see the USS Iowa in the foreground of this picture...
Posted on 02/23/2006 9:40:10 PM PST by Lorianne
Interesting photo essay at site.
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I have seen shows about how many are sunk to become reefs to help form coral and life in various places.
"To Davey Jones' locker mate...AAARRGGH!"
Indeed.
I saw some great shipwrecks while diving in Croatia.
The marine animals eventually accept the abandoned hulks as part of the coral.
Why not, it is all made of natural raw earthly materials anyway.
Sounds like what you saw you though was beautiful.
The bottom of the ocean.
Yes, it was.
You should get involved in SCUBA diving.
Once underwater, you will see it is the most beautiful place in the whole world.
It is nice and quiet there too!
:-)
You can see the USS Iowa in the foreground of this picture...
Been there - Done that.
You're absolutely correct.
Dove down to a WWII LST over in Subic a looooong time ago. Facinating yet mysterious site to behold. 120' - It was our qualification dive in Navy Diving School.
Surfing sucks now anyway because of a lack of manners in the ocean by the younger new surfers. They do too many unsafe stupid things.
You didn't happen to do a dive down to a CV anchor did you?
Diver Dave must have known of Diver Dan and Sea Hunt. I was a kid on the east coast, but they played those old things Hobo Kelly all the time decades later.
I bet you've seen some great stuff and has scary times here and there while diving since you were trained for some risky stuff.
I for one am impressed.
I credit the battleship Massachusetts for seeding my patriotic awakening as a toddler.
Sinking it is like flooding a museum, a terrible idea. They should all be kept as historic sights.
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is scheduled for sinking off Florida in the Gulf this May.
Well, since you can fly on Continental Mike, head on over to Kwajelein, and you can dive the Yamamoto which was sunk with a nuke bomb test.
Not easy to get to, not cheap, and you will need to dive it with trimix.
I dove a WWII destroyer that was scuttled during the war in Tulamben, Bali. Not a whole lot left, but a great dive.
Not the Yamamoto, she was sunk in actions by aircraft. Other Japanese battleships were used, along with U.S. vessels and the German Prinz Eugen.
You didn't happen to do a dive down to a CV anchor did you?
Nope, not on any anchors, but we did a job on the Big E in '66. The snipes had to repack one of the rudder posts, so we installed a 'dam' around the post. "Snipes" said with pride - SFP2 (DV).
The dam was a 2" manila line covered with monkey s**t. We held it in place, the snipes loosened the packing gland and the underwater pressure difference sucked it up tight - no leakie. Those rudders and screws were huge on the E.
Oh, and we had the diving barge tied up to the stern. There was a lot of wait time and one diver took a chipping hammer and etched his name "HUEY" into the paint about 4-5 ft above the water line. It may have read "ENTERPRISE" just below the fantail in black block letters, but HUEY was also there chipped into the paint. :)
Thank you. That was a very interesting photo essay.
It's hard to imagine dismantling such a thing with bare hands and a crowbar - if you're lucky.
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