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N00ba the Hutt posted:The submersible Johnson Sea Link got hung up in a wreck and had two people die in 1973. The TV movie of this story is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlidTKfth0 I haven't watched it yet but it's on my list.
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Phanatic posted:Not as a combat vessel, it was a logistics ship with no weapons or anti-missile capability or even watertight compartmentalization. HMS GAY BRUISER
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Yvonmukluk posted:I think the USS William D. Porter is perhaps the only example of a comedic maritime disaster. Nah, there was that time that a submarine went down permanently because somebody hosed up flushing the toilet, which was posted about near the top of page 1.
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I was cadet on the SA Chemical Pioneer, formerly known as the SS Seawitch, who had a brush with the ESSO Brussels in NY Harbor. The resulting fire was big enough to damage the roadway on the Verrazano Bridge. All from a faulty steering gear linkage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Esso_Brussels#Collision_with_the_container_vessel_Sea_Witch Pretty sure she is still in service moving chemicals for Union Carbide. Mercury Ballistic fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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I work in the nuclear industry. I would rather physically handle nuclear waste than work on an oil/gas rig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcDNRSsM24 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-22840445 LostCosmonaut fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Nov 9, 2016 |
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LostCosmonaut posted:I work in the nuclear industry. I would rather physically handle nuclear waste than work on an oil/gas rig. I would rather handle fuel rods with my bare hands than ever work on a rig or drill platform.
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Phanatic posted:Not as a combat vessel, it was a logistics ship with no weapons or anti-missile capability or even watertight compartmentalization. I can't remember the name of the ship, but there was a US Navy ship that had this as their "unofficial" name.
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packetmantis posted:Holy poo poo. "DAVE NOT COMING BACK"
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Around 40 shipwrecks spanning a 1000 year period have been discovered amazingly well preserved in the Black Sea, the photos in the article are incredible http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html
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Gibfender posted:Around 40 shipwrecks spanning a 1000 year period have been discovered amazingly well preserved in the Black Sea, the photos in the article are incredible we're going to learn so much from this, jfc this is beautiful
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The International Shark Attack File has a pretty interesting summery of the RMS Nova Scotia sinking http://www.sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1942.11.28-NovaScotia.pdf
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Some WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37997640 "The Guardian says it has seen 3D images, showing large holes in the seabed where HMS Exeter, HMS Encounter, the destroyer HMS Electra, as well as a US submarine, used to be." This should be a pretty interesting story. And mystery solved: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/dutch-probe-mystery-of-wartime-shipwrecks-that-appear-to-have-go/ Flaggy fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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/\/\/\/\/\/\ So is the consensus that it was done by salvagers who paid bribes to the Indonesian authorities to look the other way?Josef K. Sourdust posted:The TV movie of this story is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlidTKfth0 Watched this. It's ok. They made alterations. The son of the inventor was turned into a "world famous folk singer looking for musical inspiration". Yeah. But it's watchable.
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Came to post a link here to the story of Donald Crowhurst. If you don't know it, you should. An amateur sailor decides to take part in an internationally covered round-the-world race. He wants to back out but faces financial ruin if he does. Unable to face the stormy Antarctic seas he decides to dupe people by sending fake positional readings while he circles in the South Atlantic. Then things get out of hand.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Came to post a link here to the story of Donald Crowhurst. If you don't know it, you should. An amateur sailor decides to take part in an internationally covered round-the-world race. He wants to back out but faces financial ruin if he does. Unable to face the stormy Antarctic seas he decides to dupe people by sending fake positional readings while he circles in the South Atlantic. Then things get out of hand.... The book about this race, A Voyage for Madmen, is excellent. Highly recommended read.
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I love perusing the Wikipedia entry for actual abandoned ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_ship#Historically_attested
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Came to post a link here to the story of Donald Crowhurst. If you don't know it, you should. An amateur sailor decides to take part in an internationally covered round-the-world race. He wants to back out but faces financial ruin if he does. Unable to face the stormy Antarctic seas he decides to dupe people by sending fake positional readings while he circles in the South Atlantic. Then things get out of hand.... I believe there is a documentary called Dark Water that is based on him, and a new one being filmed/produced this year.
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I found this guys huge post a few months ago and it feels like it's in the spirit of the thread. Second hand account of the shootout on Cal Sal Bank between the Trojan and the Bahama Mama from a guy that worked on the Bahama Mama. Has a few other excellent nautical yarns as well. Copied it to Pastebin for readability, it's a great read. Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/M7tWcL69 Original post: http://www.thedentedbucket.com/footprints-dont-lie/
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Flaggy posted:I believe there is a documentary called Dark Water that is based on him, and a new one being filmed/produced this year. Deep Water, and it’s worth a watch.
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I come from the Scuba thread, but I think there will be a fair amount of overlap here. I work as a divemaster in the Cape Fear region of NC. This is where the HMS Bounty was fleeing from when it sank in Sandy, but there's plenty more out there. Let's have the story of the John D. Gill! The John D. Gill was an oil tanker en route from TX to PA (only her second voyage) when a U-boat acquired it as a target. That U-boat was U-158, which in itself was an infamous boat (17 ships sank and 2 more damaged, on only 2 patrols  ). The torpedo fired by the U-boat blew a hole in one of the oil tanks on the Gill on the night of March 13, 1942 approximately 25 miles off of Cape Fear. The Gill didn't initially catch on fire or start exploding, but the life-rings in use back then had self-igniting flares rigged to them. Throw it overboard, add salt water, and you've got a "please come loving find me!" beacon ready and lit. A crewman threw one of those in the water after the torpedo strike, and ignited an apocalyptic inferno. The fires spread into the oil tanks of the Gill causing numerous secondary explosions, which destroyed a number of lifeboats. Complicating things further, the ship's propellers hadn't lost power when the ship started to list. A lifeboat that had made it to the water was sucked into one of the screws, killing everyone on board that lifeboat. One account has the lifeboat spilling guys into the water and having them sucked into the screws, but the end result isn't any different; everyone on board that lifeboat died. A second lifeboat was commanded by Edwin F. Cheney, Jr, the first Merchant Mariner to earn a Distinguished Service Medal. Let's have a look at his citation (from http://www.usmm.org/heroes.html):quote:For heroism above and beyond the call of duty during enemy attack when he released and launched a life-raft from a sinking and burning ship and maneuvered it through a pool of burning oil to clear water by swimming under water, coming up only to breathe. Although he had incurred severe burns about the face and arms in this action, he then guided four of his shipmates to the raft, and swam to and rescued two others who were injured and unable to help themselves. His extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety in thus rescuing his shipmates will be an enduring inspiration to seamen of the United States Merchant Marine everywhere. The Gill is a divable wreck, being only ~25 miles offshore and in ~110 ft of water. Only 26/52 crew survived the sinking, and 11 of those people that survived did so because of Mr. Cheney's efforts. I haven't dove on it yet, and I'm not entirely sure if I will based on the story. I've got video from the Alexander Ramsey, the Hyde, and the Markham, but those are all artificial reefs. The Alexander Ramsey was a WWII Liberty Ship (most produced ship frame in history, with over 2700 Liberty ships built over the course of WWII), and both the Hyde and Markham are former US Army Corps of Engineer dredges. Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:I come from the Scuba thread, but I think there will be a fair amount of overlap here. I work as a divemaster in the Cape Fear region of NC. This is where the HMS Bounty was fleeing from when it sank in Sandy, but there's plenty more out there. Let's have the story of the John D. Gill! Very interesting, I welcome any additions/crossovers personally
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As promised, pics and video of 3 wrecks off of Wilmington, NC. All videos taken with a GoPro Hero3, with a magenta filter. A link I should've included in my previous post, for the John D. Gill: http://www.wilmingtondiving.com/jdgill.shtml And now, the videos. The Hyde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-YBMgg_DAg quote:The Hyde is a 215 ft ocean going hopper dredge. It was built in 1945 in Wilmington Delaware and saw service in Atlantic, Pacific and Honolulu. It's primary function was to keep waterways open for Naval ship traffic. Because the Hyde was constructed during WWII it was one of a few dredges outfitted with guns, armor, and a gun crew. Today the Hyde sits upright in 85ft of water 18 miles from Masonboro inlet. It was sunk by NC Division of Marine Fisheries in 1988. From http://www.wilmingtondiving.com/hyde.shtml. Also at that link: a scan of a pamphlet used on tours of the Hyde back when she was first commissioned. While doing dredge work in South Vietnam (during the Vietnam War), the Hyde found a few magnetic mines the hard way; quick thinking by the captain and crew ensured that no lives were lost (only 3 people were even injured), and the vessel remained seaworthy. Upon striking the mines, the captain ordered all dredge holds immediately emptied and had the crew beach the Hyde until she could get back on the ocean. Now she sits in ~84 ft of water, and her decks are covered in corals. In the summer, the Hyde crawls with sandtiger sharks; in the winter, spadefish take over. The visibility on this day was less than normal (this was a common theme for all of last summer, across most of our wrecks); normal visibility on the Hyde is around 60 ft, but on this day we probably only had 20ft. The Hyde started her new life as an artificial reef in 1988. The Markham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQtcFZ7nk4 quote:The Markham is 340 ft long ocean going hopper dredge. It spent most of it's time working in the Great Lakes. It was the Cadillac of hopper dredges back in the 1960's with many new innovations which included bow thrusters and an advanced pumpout system. Now the Markham sits 18 miles out of Masonboro Inlet in 85 ft of water. It was sunk by the NC Division of Marine Fisheries in 1994. Two days before the sinking it was realized the Markham was too large to be sunk upright as originally planned. It was decided that the Markham would have to be sunk on its side to allow enough clearance for ship traffic. Now it rests on its port side slowly sinking into the bedrock. The Markham was another US Army Corps of Engineers dredge, though not nearly as exciting a story as the Hyde; she worked the Great Lakes. She lies rotated about 100 degrees on her port side, and has several areas where wreck penetration is possible. I went into one of them on the video; it looks like I'm heading into a dark abyss, but in reality I had spotted my turnaround point as soon as I dropped into that hole. The camera couldn't pick up much of anything in the low light, so it looks like I'm just charging off into a dark abyss. The Alexander Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJmwbnGs24 quote:The Alexander Ramsey is a liberty ship that was sunk as part of the artificial reef program in 1984. It is about 2.5 miles from Masonboro inlet in 45 ft of water. There are very few divers around Wilmington that are not familiar with the Lib Ship. Due to it's close proximity to shore it is visited frequently by divers. It is a popular place to conduct open water checkout dives. This has been the first dive for thousands of divers over the past 20 years. It has at least 4 other small wrecks in it's proximity which helps attract a lot of marine life. Recently there has been at least two resident sand tiger sharks that make it their year round home. http://www.wilmingtondiving.com/libship.shtml It bothers me a little bit that local divers here refer to the Alexander Ramsey as just 'the lib ship'. Liberty-class cargo ships are the most-produced ship frame in all of human history, with over 2700 ships in that class. If you go look through the Merchant Marines' list of people who received their Distinguished Service Medal, you'll see the ship SS Stephen Hopkins appear more than any other. All Liberty ships carried naval guns and crew on board, in case they happened across a surfaced U-boat randomly; these came in handy for another Liberty ship (the Stephen Hopkins) when it happened across a German raider in the fog. The Stephen Hopkins got wrecked, but not before landing a few lucky shots with its 4" gun on the German raider and sinking it. The Alexander Ramsey had a similar loadout, but never got into a fight as far as I'm aware. Reports vary on when exactly the Alexander Ramsey was reefed, placing that in either 1974 or 1984. There are several other smaller boats and tugs surrounding her now, as a full artificial reef. I've seen a sandtiger shark hanging out here before, right at dusk one night. She's 440 ft of shipwreck, but I think the lower decks were cut off so the ship itself could actually fit in the ~50ft of water she now sits in. Being close to shore, the vis can vary from almost nothing to 40 ft, depending on who knows how many factors. More wrecks and info can be found here, but this list is not exhaustive by any means. I've worked with a scuba instructor whose day job is working for the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the NC State Government, and he tells me that there are 30 Civil War blockade runners between Wilmington and Southport, and that's only from the 4 years the blockade was actually in place. Wilmington sits in a place that sailors of old named Cape Fear, which is found in the Graveyard of the Atlantic; that's a name that was earned somehow. Last year a dive boat caught on fire and went diving to put itself out ~10 miles from Frying Pan Tower, and a Harrier jet crashed just offshore from Wrightsville Beach, so it isn't like the Graveyard is done adding to the Ghost Fleet.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:5 Unexplained Ghost Ships video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourang_Medan quote:Several authors note their inability to find any mention of the case in Lloyd's Shipping Register.[1][12][13] Furthermore, no registration records for a ship by the name of Ourang Medan could be located in various countries, including the Netherlands. While Bainton states that the identity of the Silver Star, reported to have been involved in the failed rescue attempt, has been established with some certainty, the complete lack of information on the sunken ship itself has given rise to suspicion about the origins and credibility of the account. Ships logs for the Silver Star did not show a record of any such rescue attempt. Bainton and others have put forward the possibility that accounts of, among others, the date, location, names of the ships involved, and circumstances of the accident might have been inaccurate or exaggerated, or that the story might be completely fictitious.
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The mystery of the Sarah Joe skiff examined in a video by Cayleigh Elise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kil30nkdpy0
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Ugh, I wanted to like that but she was literally just quoting internet forum speculation. "Unsolved Mysteries forum user narutolover71 speculates the tinfoil was used as rudimentary radio"
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:The mystery of the Sarah Joe skiff examined in a video by Cayleigh Elise. I love all the source material she has, but she is absolutely horrible at doing videos. Monotone, tries to be "spooky", I can't really stand her presentation.
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 The subject is more engaging than the presentation. Any YouTubers with specialisation in marine subjects?
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If you find some let me know, usually I just search for John Chatterton, or anything else shipwreck related. Usually I can find an old doc or podcast someone has thrown up.
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If you're looking for random shipwrecks, follow Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum on Facebook. You'll get things like the Carroll A. Deering, which washed up on Diamond Shoals (near Cape Hatteras) on 31 Jan 1921. The crew went missing, the tables were set as if someone were sitting down to have a meal, the last contact anyone had with the ship was unusual, at best:quote:The ship was next sighted by the Cape Lookout Lightship in North Carolina on January 28, 1921, when the vessel hailed it. The lightship's keeper, Captain Jacobson, reported that a thin man with reddish hair and a foreign accent told him the vessel had lost its anchors in a storm off Cape Fear. Jacobson took note of this, but his radio was out, so he was unable to report it. He noticed that the crew seemed to be "milling around" on the fore deck of the ship, an area where they were usually not allowed. That person that Captain Jacobson talked to does not match the description of the last known captain (Captain W. B. Wormell, brought on when the original captain fell sick and had to be offloaded in Delaware). The behavior of the crew was also thought to be strange, which led the various investigators to suspect mutiny on the ship prior to it being driven aground. Lifeboats were gone, a cat was still on board, and 5 different federal agencies (Commerce, Treasury, Justice, Navy, and State) looked into the disappearance of the crew, finding nothing. The ship's log, navigation equipment, and personal effects of the crew were also gone. The agencies managed to track down other ships in the area over the courses of their investigations, and none of them reported taking on or even seeing lifeboats/people in the water. The Coast Guard attempted salvage after the weather cleared 4 days later, but finding that impossible resorted to the fun way: dynamite. The wreck was dynamited until they deemed it no longer a threat to other shipping, and various pieces washed up on shore. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_A._Deering https://www.facebook.com/GraveyardoftheAtlanticMuseum/ They typically post "[ship name] was lost today at [place on the NC coast] for [reason]; there were [x] survivors." We're coming into the time of year when the waters off of Cape Hatteras became known as Torpedo Alley during WWII, for the lurking U-boats wreaking havoc on ships that were as close in as 5 miles offshore. One of the anniversaries coming up is for the John D. Gill, which I posted about earlier. http://graveyardoftheatlantic.com/ is the museum's website, mostly good for upcoming events at their museum.
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http://infomory.com/famous/famous-deep-sea-divers/ Just popped up in my news feed. Nothing too deep, but a good jump off point for some of their adventures. Especially John Chatterton, great author.
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Flaggy posted:http://infomory.com/famous/famous-deep-sea-divers/ Why does it say he died in 2003 when the rest of the internet seems to think he's still alive Some lazy research i guess quote:Before to his career in television, Chatterton spent twenty years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City. His first co-host and diving partner from Deep Sea Detectives, Michael Norwood, died in a diving accident during an expedition to Palau in December 2003.
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Not sure of a better thread but does anyone have any book recommendations about size and strength and technology, etc of current US navy/armed forces?
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:Not sure of a better thread but does anyone have any book recommendations about size and strength and technology, etc of current US navy/armed forces? Are you looking for something in Russian, or will English do, comrade? The Jane's series of books (Fighting Ships, Land Warfare Platforms) might be what you're looking for, but they're pretty expensive. Otherwise Wikipedia has pretty much all the publicly available specs.
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:Not sure of a better thread but does anyone have any book recommendations about size and strength and technology, etc of current US navy/armed forces?
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My guys! Thanks 🙏
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