jake65
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check this out...
http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm
http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm
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Awsome pictures! Thanks for sharing. BTW this is not the first ship that they have done this with as they are claiming. There were a few others that have been sunk in the past for the same purpose. Some of them were off the coast of Alabama and at least one was sunk off of Florida. No doubt that this was the largest though. Great stuff!!!
Brian
Brian
Krish
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I told them that bilge pump needed changing
It is always a good Idea when they do this. I wish they sunk it in a little shallower water though. As a diver it is a little deep for a nice long relaxing dive (212') ans forget about any coral or photosynthetic life. But that is trival, I am glad they sunk her for that purpose.
I have been trying to get tires dumped in the sea for years for the same purpose. We have millions of tires with no use for and thousands of miles of seabed with no topography but mud. I have been diving for lobsters in the Long Island Sound for almost forty years and almost every sunken tire contains a lobster. Lack of reefs, either natural or man made is IMO the biggest obstacle to increasing sea life. There is almost no life on a mud bottom besides worms but add a tire (or aircraft carrier) and a whole new world opens up.
I know this is off subject, sorry,
Have a great day.
Paul
I have been trying to get tires dumped in the sea for years for the same purpose. We have millions of tires with no use for and thousands of miles of seabed with no topography but mud. I have been diving for lobsters in the Long Island Sound for almost forty years and almost every sunken tire contains a lobster. Lack of reefs, either natural or man made is IMO the biggest obstacle to increasing sea life. There is almost no life on a mud bottom besides worms but add a tire (or aircraft carrier) and a whole new world opens up.
I know this is off subject, sorry,
Have a great day.
Paul
I was just showing the pics to a guy in the office here that served on a nuclear class carrier. I said something about it being in water that is too deep.
He said from the bottom of the hull to the flat top is 100' on a nuclear and around 80' on this one then you add the 80+' from the tower and it is now 160' tall. so the shallowest point is now 50' deep. I sure they did it this deep to keep other ships from plowing into it.
He said from the bottom of the hull to the flat top is 100' on a nuclear and around 80' on this one then you add the 80+' from the tower and it is now 160' tall. so the shallowest point is now 50' deep. I sure they did it this deep to keep other ships from plowing into it.
jake65
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Brenden said:
Thats what was use to hold the generators and stuff to set off the explosives
