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Ghosts of the Sea

By lex, on May 8th, 2008

More here, courtesy of occasional reader JMH.

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May 8th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Navy, Unfiled

6 comments to Ghosts of the Sea

  • Subsunk
    May 8, 2008 at 8:08 am

    Now that’s just plain cool. Good to see that my old expertise has lots of uses. As a member of the Evil Oil and Gas Industry now, I find submarine applications and remotely operated vehicles are in great demand. It is amazing what goes on under the seas’ surface, isn’t it. And what you can find there.

    Subsunk

  • Humble1390
    May 8, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Tres cool. I’ve been trying to dive Scapa for years, but have never quite made it. Now I’ve got some study material!

    Here’s a fun fact: most steel made post WWII has been manufactured using the Bessemer Process, which uses massive quantities of air. B/c of all the ionizing radiation in the atmosphere post Manhattan Project (etc.), all of this steel is radioactive, at least in trace amounts. Sooooo, when NASA needed radiation free steel for spacecraft parts or highly sensitive experiments, they had (have?) to get it from Scapa Flow. Divers pull off the shell plating in sheets and float it to the surface. So, in a way, Germany is responsible for getting us to the moon!

  • rpl
    May 8, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Neat. We had Bernie Chodhury come and speak at the dive shop, and he’s leading a trip to Scapa Flow this summer. I’m taking a pass. My plan is to spend my 50th birthday (2009) diving th wrecks in Truk.

    I’ll let you know how it goes.

  • SeniorD
    May 9, 2008 at 5:53 am

    As a Certified Deep Dive, Mixed Gas enthusiast, I’d love to dive Scapa (much better preserved than Truk to say the least). However, funds and medical conditions preclude any such attempt.

  • Humble1390
    May 9, 2008 at 6:50 am

    Senior- That’s the first negative report I’ve heard about Truk. Although, I have heard it’s more of a reef diver’s paradise than a true wreck diver’s palace, which has kind of turned me off to it.

  • SeniorD
    May 10, 2008 at 4:16 am

    Humble,

    Sure, it’s more of a reef divers paradise, but the warm water is deteriorating the wrecks. The place is so well policed that anyone attempting to bring up artifacts get hefty fines and lose whatever artifacts they score.

    Wreck divers want artifacts, not tourists.
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