The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

On Wed, 24 May 2006 06:19:42 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.


Those guys in the little boat had a hell of a ride, huh?

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The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.



Fantastic pictures! Thanks for the link Bill.

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

Calif Bill wrote:
http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.



Very Cool - I was not expecting the boat on deck to get sucked under.
But maybe go down due to the bubbles reducing the waters ability to
support it's displacment :-)

Capt Jack R..

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

"Jack Redington" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.
Very Cool - I was not expecting the boat on deck to get sucked under. But
maybe go down due to the bubbles reducing the waters ability to support
it's displacment :-)

Capt Jack R..


I heard it was there as part of a Myth Busters show.

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

Those guys in the little boat had a hell of a ride, huh?

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'Til next time,

John H

Pssst.............John...........obviously no one was aboard the small
boat when the ship sank. No one in their right mind would put human
life at risk in such a event. It was only used to hold and save the
generator and electronics used to set off the explosions and was later
boarded once the ship was sunk. ;-)

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.


This was apparently the first test for the Navy in their long term reef
building plan with sinking old and obsolete ships.

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"The Navy rescued the ship from the salvage yard after a contract to turn it
into scrap metal fell through. The sinking made the Oriskany its first ship
to be used in a pilot program to reef old warships."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/car....ap/index.html
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Other civilian owned ships have been sunk in the past for the same purpose
and with impressive results for the habitat.

http://www.fla-keys.com/spiegelgrove/

http://www.ncfisheries.net/kids/sinking.htm

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

On Wed, 24 May 2006 06:19:42 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.

People involved with the sinking of the Oriskany said that the boat on
the deck had several cameras on it to record the event from close up.

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The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

I always wondered why all that steel could not be
recycled to something new today. Its hard
to imagine that its cheaper to mine new materials
vs. melting down existing stuff.

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

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I always wondered why all that steel could not be
recycled to something new today. Its hard
to imagine that its cheaper to mine new materials
vs. melting down existing stuff.


The cost of the ship breaking. And the toxic materials that have to be
handled. I understand a lot of the old ships are broken up in the India
area. They run them aground and swarms of 30 cent a day laborers take the
ship apart.

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

On Fri, 26 May 2006 12:59:23 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:


The cost of the ship breaking. And the toxic materials that have to be
handled. I understand a lot of the old ships are broken up in the India
area. They run them aground and swarms of 30 cent a day laborers take
the ship apart.

That may be past tense:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4988664.stm

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

Calif Bill wrote:
"Jack Redington" wrote in message
nk.net...

Calif Bill wrote:

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.

Very Cool - I was not expecting the boat on deck to get sucked under. But
maybe go down due to the bubbles reducing the waters ability to support
it's displacment :-)

Capt Jack R..



I heard it was there as part of a Myth Busters show.



I didn't get the idea from Myth busters. But there have been some
interesting programs on the Bermuda triangle where they tested this.
Trying to see if a ship could be sunk due to the release of gas deposits
being released from the bottem. One test was in a tank with a model.
And another was with a runnabout where they had alot of equipment
pumping air into some large device to create bubbles.

It's been awhile since I had seen this and the results were very
interesting.

This sounds like what they were doing:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...631498889.html

Cheers"

Capt Jack R..

The sinking of the Oriskany.
 

On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:56:17 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:


The cost of the ship breaking. And the toxic materials that have to be
handled. I understand a lot of the old ships are broken up in the India
area. They run them aground and swarms of 30 cent a day laborers take the
ship apart.

You might find this interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3558527.stm

In the picture about protective gear (#4), note the guy in the
background's use of a ladder. Running them aground and swarming, seems
accurate.