10 Most Incredible Sunken Ships on Earth

[Serpo]

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-incredible-sunken-ships

[gunDriller]

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/4357856836a8fa8c7bd1zjpg_0.img_assist_custom-600x500.jpg

this Russian ship near the Cayman Islands is aluminum - 300 feet long of aluminum.

now THERE's some precious metal !

[Awoke]

That's a nice picture. Everytime I click teh link, I get a popup window called "File download - Security warning". The page won't open for me, and I am not saving it to the HDD.

[mightymanx]

I would rename that article the 10 neatest tourist shipwrecks that are easy to get to.

I would make my list of the top 10 most incrediable shipwrecks and or shipwreck sites.

1 Titanic
2 Bismark
3 Lusitania
4 Bikini Atol (3rd largest navy ever assembled sunk for atomic testing)
5 Britanic
6 Sutten Hoo burial ship (sunk on land to bury a Norse king)
7 Guattle canal AKA Iron Bottom Sound
8 Scarpa Flow
9 Jutland
10 CSS Hunley

[gunDriller]

I would rename that article the 10 neatest tourist shipwrecks that are easy to get to.

I would make my list of the top 10 most incrediable shipwrecks and or shipwreck sites.

1 Titanic
2 Bismark
3 Lusitania
4 Bikini Atol (3rd largest navy ever assembled sunk for atomic testing)
5 Britanic
6 Sutten Hoo burial ship (sunk on land to bury a Norse king)
7 Guattle canal AKA Iron Bottom Sound
8 Scarpa Flow
9 Jutland
10 CSS Hunley


what about the SS Central America ? It went down with about 15 tons of gold on board, in about 8000 feet of water off the coast of Virginia, around 1851.

"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" - the book about it - great book. Tommy Thompson led the team and basically re-invented deepwater submersible technology ... and took home 40% of the loot.

That's the biggest precious metal shipwreck i've heard of.

[palani]

Gunilda ... private Scotish built yacht from the '20s ... the millionair owner was too cheap to hire a pilot and ran her aground on a reef in N Lake Superior. He rowed ashore, got a tug, the tug captain didn't like the shape of the stern so warned against pulling her off ... millionair insisted ... tug captain had the millionair sign a release, got all passengers off, passed a hawser, positioned a crewman with an ax at the bullocks and told him if he heard a long blow on the whistle he was to ax the hawser. Took a strain, pulled the yacht off, she slid straight back in and ended up in over 300 feet of water. Hawser was chopped and there she sits today. Fresh cold water means she is as intact as the day she went down.

[palani]

Another one at the entrance harbor to Isle Royale in Lake Superior is the SS America. Her bow is in 4 feet of water and stern in 70. There is a model T Ford truck on deck and a grand piano below. The steam gages look like they were painted yesterday. Very clean wreck.

[JDRock]

Dont forget the USS Dollar ;0

[mightymanx]

what about the SS Central America ? It went down with about 15 tons of gold on board, in about 8000 feet of water off the coast of Virginia, around 1851.

"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" - the book about it - great book. Tommy Thompson led the team and basically re-invented deepwater submersible technology ... and took home 40% of the loot.

That's the biggest precious metal shipwreck i've heard of.

Not trying to brag but I know the guys that did it. Nice haul but not that great as far as historical shipwrecks go.

If we want the gold wrecks the I-52 tops my list.

[palani]

The Emperor is an ore carrier that went down in 1948 off the west coast of Isle Royale. One hundred fifty feet of her is only 30 feet deep (on a reef). She broke after the no 5 hatch and the pilot house is around 120 feet deep. The engine room is closer to 220 feet deep. When I dove on her in 1985 we were told that if you knew where you were going and penetrated a little further each time you could make your way into the engine room where there were still bodies floating.

Then they said that some diver (a crazy class if there ever was one) took a cowboy hat down with him along with a camera, propped one of the old crew up against a bulkhead, put the cowboy hat on him and took his picture.

[Awoke]

I would like to see that picture Palani. That would be morbidly fascinating.

[Gaillo]

A thread of boating accidents on a gold-silver forum... what are the odds? ;D

[Gaillo]

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/4357856836a8fa8c7bd1zjpg_0.img_assist_custom-600x500.jpg

this Russian ship near the Cayman Islands is aluminum - 300 feet long of aluminum.

now THERE's some precious metal !

I'm amazed the meth-heads haven't stolen it for scrap metal yet... ;)