And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Scuba can get dangerous after 20 feet and is very technical. Freediving can go deeper without equipment but obviously for a shorter time frame. The long fins and weight belt facilitate a quick decent. Just curious how deep this wreck is.
Steve, are you scuba qualified? How deep have you gone using each method? Both can be dangerous. My deepest for SCUBA, 130 feet. Free diving about 35 feet. Both a long time ago. at one tim I owned Aqualung /regulator 15xxx.
I performed heavy overhauls on DC-3s in the '80s and '90s, (we unbolted the wings to inspect the waffle plates among other tasks). It's not a DC-3 or even an airplane. The DC-3 rudder and elevators are covered with fabric which would have disintegrated first leaving a skeletal frame. The horizontal stabilizer shape is wrong, the rear edge should be straight where the elevator attaches to it. Also take a look at the "engines" what is that big pipe running through where the engine should be to support the propeller? I think this is a prop made for a movie. Al_in_Ottawa
I'm calling out Photoshop on this. A genuine WWII wreck will be much more degraded after 80 years. Could be a genuine wreck photo from that time with the diver added. If not, it's a good guess.
I once did a dive off of the coast of Wake Island. We were down at 100 ft and came across this anchor that was about 8 ft tall from point to point with the anchor chain running off over the edge into the abyss. Days later I went to the base library and found a book on the Wake Island at the beginning of WWII. Found out it was the anchor of the Japanese destroyer Hayate which was the first warship to be sunk in WWII when the Marines fired a 5/51 shore gun directly into the ship hitting torpedo tubes and breaking the ship in half.
Great photograph
ReplyDeleteExcellent freedive, I'd love to know how deep?
ReplyDeleteThe diver or the wreck?
DeleteScuba can get dangerous after 20 feet and is very technical. Freediving can go deeper without equipment but obviously for a shorter time frame. The long fins and weight belt facilitate a quick decent. Just curious how deep this wreck is.
DeleteSteve, are you scuba qualified? How deep have you gone using each method?
DeleteBoth can be dangerous. My deepest for SCUBA, 130 feet. Free diving about 35 feet. Both a long time ago. at one tim I owned Aqualung /regulator 15xxx.
DC-3 ?
ReplyDeleteKind of looks like it.
ReplyDeleteyeah that broke off tail section looks like from a goony bird
DeleteI performed heavy overhauls on DC-3s in the '80s and '90s, (we unbolted the wings to inspect the waffle plates among other tasks). It's not a DC-3 or even an airplane. The DC-3 rudder and elevators are covered with fabric which would have disintegrated first leaving a skeletal frame. The horizontal stabilizer shape is wrong, the rear edge should be straight where the elevator attaches to it. Also take a look at the "engines" what is that big pipe running through where the engine should be to support the propeller?
DeleteI think this is a prop made for a movie.
Al_in_Ottawa
Yep. I thought it was, at best, a DC3 stripped before being dumped until you pointed out some weird features and shape issues.
Deletelooks like some sea creature bones and carcass.
ReplyDeleteVisiting a gravesite.
ReplyDeleteTruk Lagoon? Not deep if actually Truk Lagoon: The Haunting WWII Graveyard Under The Sea .
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt
Truk Lagoon is between 66 and 220 feet. Since 100 feet is considered the limit of sport diving, most of the wrecks in Truk are "off limits."
DeleteI'm calling out Photoshop on this. A genuine WWII wreck will be much more degraded after 80 years. Could be a genuine wreck photo from that time with the diver added. If not, it's a good guess.
ReplyDeleteI am curious about the spar laying perpendicular to two relatively intact wings.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking IJN, like a G4M.
G4M 'Betty'
DeleteProp spinners don't match for a G4M
ReplyDeleteDC-3 deliberately sunk for a movie circa 2004, later the debris was disturbed by a hurricane. Nassau, Grand Bahamas
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI once did a dive off of the coast of Wake Island. We were down at 100 ft and came across this anchor that was about 8 ft tall from point to point with the anchor chain running off over the edge into the abyss. Days later I went to the base library and found a book on the Wake Island at the beginning of WWII. Found out it was the anchor of the Japanese destroyer Hayate which was the first warship to be sunk in WWII when the Marines fired a 5/51 shore gun directly into the ship hitting torpedo tubes and breaking the ship in half.
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