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Title: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: oakranger on February 12, 2019, 12:28:07 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/science/wreck-of-wwii-aircraft-carrier-uss-hornet-discovered-in-the-south-pacific
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: Oldman731 on February 12, 2019, 12:39:05 PM
Amazing condition.  Guess it helps to be three miles down.

Wonder if we could at least hook that Wildcat?

- oldman
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: pembquist on February 12, 2019, 02:40:01 PM
Some fresh gas and a new battery and that tractor will start right up!
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: oakranger on February 12, 2019, 02:48:18 PM
Amazing condition.  Guess it helps to be three miles down.

Wonder if we could at least hook that Wildcat?

- oldman

If we recover K-129 (little over 3 miles deep) Why not?
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: oakranger on February 12, 2019, 02:49:30 PM
Some fresh gas and a new battery and that tractor will start right up!

I was shock to see it there.  For a ship to sink 3 miles it remains there. 
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: Skuzzy on February 12, 2019, 02:58:13 PM
I was shock to see it there.  For a ship to sink 3 miles it remains there.

I would imagine it was tethered down to prevent it from rolling about.  Pretty amazing though.
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: Volron on February 12, 2019, 03:07:58 PM
What's also neat is they found Hiei not too long ago as well.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/wreck-of-one-of-the-first-japanese-battleships-sunk-by-the-us-in-ww-ii-discovered
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: oakranger on February 12, 2019, 03:37:33 PM
I would imagine it was tethered down to prevent it from rolling about.  Pretty amazing though.

Yea, I was thinking of that
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: Skuzzy on February 12, 2019, 03:44:00 PM
I am blown away by the structural integrity of the ship.  Just having that tractor sit there all these years, under water and not fall through the deck is pretty damn amazing to me.

The ship had to hit the bottom hard after falling that far.  Just amazing.
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: DaveBB on February 12, 2019, 03:59:12 PM
What was the aircraft carrier they found last year? It had amazing photos like this too. 
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Post by: Volron on February 12, 2019, 04:07:22 PM
Lady Lex.
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Post by: Brooke on February 12, 2019, 06:47:46 PM
Wow.  That is amazing condition and sitting so flat.

Thanks for posting.
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Post by: 1stpar3 on February 13, 2019, 01:38:12 AM
Looks almost pristine! The tires on the tractor look pretty good even. Heck of a hole though!  :uhoh
Title: Re: Usd hornet discover!
Post by: Guppy35 on February 13, 2019, 03:12:10 PM
Apparently 45 feet of the stern is about a mile away in the debris field.  One Wildcat on the bottom so far as well.  Amazing that both the Yorktown and Hornet that went down in the war, outlasted the Enterprise that survived.  I know it's beyond reason, but it would sure be something to be able to walk the decks of some of these ships again.