http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/2...f_Massachusetts_nearly_70_years_after_it_sank
Pretty cool.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Pretty cool.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Maggie’s WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
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Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
I see Steve Gatto was one of the expedition members that found her.
IIRC - he also was part of the team with John Chatterton and Richie Koehler that found/dove//identified the U-869. I'd have to go back through Shadow Divers to make sure but that's the only place I would have run across his name.
I see Steve Gatto was one of the expedition members that found her.
IIRC - he also was part of the team with John Chatterton and Richie Koehler that found/dove//identified the U-869. I'd have to go back through Shadow Divers to make sure but that's the only place I would have run across his name.
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
How deep does she lie?
How deep does she lie?
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
They didn't say depth (I was wondering the same thing)
And they are being a bit cagey about where it is to keep souvenir hunters, etc. away. But the article said they made a 'brief' dive to inspect it. But no idea how technologically advanced their dive gear is. ie... scuba (maybe 200 feet???) or some kind of fancy hard suit or mixed gas or something.
I'm not a diver, but many years ago, I was friends with a guy named Rod Farb who did some of the first scuba dives on the Monitor. I learned a lot about diving technology, etc. from him just in passing. Maybe someone who really knows diving can chime in, but if they did a scuba dive to it, it's likely to be in pretty shallow water.
I am sure more will be coming out about this! I can't imagine that Discovery or Nat. Geo won't be interested.
According to Wikipedia, not all the crew got off (some were trapped in a forward compartment) so it may be a protected wreck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-550
I just think it's pretty cool that they found it.
Cheers,
Sirhr
They didn't say depth (I was wondering the same thing)
And they are being a bit cagey about where it is to keep souvenir hunters, etc. away. But the article said they made a 'brief' dive to inspect it. But no idea how technologically advanced their dive gear is. ie... scuba (maybe 200 feet???) or some kind of fancy hard suit or mixed gas or something.
I'm not a diver, but many years ago, I was friends with a guy named Rod Farb who did some of the first scuba dives on the Monitor. I learned a lot about diving technology, etc. from him just in passing. Maybe someone who really knows diving can chime in, but if they did a scuba dive to it, it's likely to be in pretty shallow water.
I am sure more will be coming out about this! I can't imagine that Discovery or Nat. Geo won't be interested.
According to Wikipedia, not all the crew got off (some were trapped in a forward compartment) so it may be a protected wreck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-550
I just think it's pretty cool that they found it.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sirhrmechanic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They didn't say depth (I was wondering the same thing)
And they are being a bit cagey about where it is to keep souvenir hunters, etc. away. But the article said they made a 'brief' dive to inspect it. But no idea how technologically advanced their dive gear is. ie... scuba (maybe 200 feet???) or some kind of fancy hard suit or mixed gas or something.
I'm not a diver, but many years ago, I was friends with a guy named Rod Farb who did some of the first scuba dives on the Monitor. I learned a lot about diving technology, etc. from him just in passing. Maybe someone who really knows diving can chime in, but if they did a scuba dive to it, it's likely to be in pretty shallow water.
I am sure more will be coming out about this! I can't imagine that Discovery or Nat. Geo won't be interested.
According to Wikipedia, not all the crew got off (some were trapped in a forward compartment) so it may be a protected wreck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-550
I just think it's pretty cool that they found it.
Cheers,
Sirhr</div></div>
Rec scuba has a limit of 130 feet. With modern dive knowledge, expensive gas, good training and a lot of ocean time - I know guys are diving to 300.
Brief dive could simply be a bottom bounce to make sure the "pile of rocks" on the plotter wasn't a wreck or it could have been 10 minutes on the bottom, 5 hours in deco on the way up.
Technical diving is a whole nother WORLD of diving and guys like Gatto can do it.
Most likely many of the team were on CCR's
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sirhrmechanic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They didn't say depth (I was wondering the same thing)
And they are being a bit cagey about where it is to keep souvenir hunters, etc. away. But the article said they made a 'brief' dive to inspect it. But no idea how technologically advanced their dive gear is. ie... scuba (maybe 200 feet???) or some kind of fancy hard suit or mixed gas or something.
I'm not a diver, but many years ago, I was friends with a guy named Rod Farb who did some of the first scuba dives on the Monitor. I learned a lot about diving technology, etc. from him just in passing. Maybe someone who really knows diving can chime in, but if they did a scuba dive to it, it's likely to be in pretty shallow water.
I am sure more will be coming out about this! I can't imagine that Discovery or Nat. Geo won't be interested.
According to Wikipedia, not all the crew got off (some were trapped in a forward compartment) so it may be a protected wreck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-550
I just think it's pretty cool that they found it.
Cheers,
Sirhr</div></div>
Rec scuba has a limit of 130 feet. With modern dive knowledge, expensive gas, good training and a lot of ocean time - I know guys are diving to 300.
Brief dive could simply be a bottom bounce to make sure the "pile of rocks" on the plotter wasn't a wreck or it could have been 10 minutes on the bottom, 5 hours in deco on the way up.
Technical diving is a whole nother WORLD of diving and guys like Gatto can do it.
Most likely many of the team were on CCR's
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
Very cool, wonder the depth.
Very cool, wonder the depth.
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
My uncle told me he could see the burning tanker fires off Brooklyn, when the u-boats used to use the city lights to silhouette ships heading to NY, even when the ships were in blackout mode. One u-boat landed spies on Long Island, but they were nailed like 5 days later.
My uncle told me he could see the burning tanker fires off Brooklyn, when the u-boats used to use the city lights to silhouette ships heading to NY, even when the ships were in blackout mode. One u-boat landed spies on Long Island, but they were nailed like 5 days later.
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
theirs a pretty popular u boat off of Florida my dad said he dove on nitrox, i have never diven with him over their id have to ask him where it was if any one wants to know
theirs a pretty popular u boat off of Florida my dad said he dove on nitrox, i have never diven with him over their id have to ask him where it was if any one wants to know
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
German U-boat U-1105 "Panther" in the putomic river, they got that close.
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German U-boat U-1105 "Panther" in the putomic river, they got that close.
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Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
well not really..
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-5.htm
http://mht.maryland.gov/U1105.html
well not really..
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-5.htm
http://mht.maryland.gov/U1105.html
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
I have heard stories told of German U boat crews actually coming on shore and visiting the local country stores to stock up on supplies. These stories where told to me by my grandfather who grew up in coastal North Carolina. I have GPS numbers for offshore fishing wrecks and some are verified German U boats. I will have to see if can find the book that caused me to raise the question to him about these crews coming on shore.
I have heard stories told of German U boat crews actually coming on shore and visiting the local country stores to stock up on supplies. These stories where told to me by my grandfather who grew up in coastal North Carolina. I have GPS numbers for offshore fishing wrecks and some are verified German U boats. I will have to see if can find the book that caused me to raise the question to him about these crews coming on shore.
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
Pretty cool. One of the founding members of the dive unit that I've since taken an LOA from was part of the expedition that found the U869 and most of the guys involved in that group were in our unit.
They've been working to find this boat for a lot longer than 2 years, after Steve passed in 2005 things fell off for a while.
Pretty cool. One of the founding members of the dive unit that I've since taken an LOA from was part of the expedition that found the U869 and most of the guys involved in that group were in our unit.
They've been working to find this boat for a lot longer than 2 years, after Steve passed in 2005 things fell off for a while.
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cowboy1978</div><div class="ubbcode-body">German U-boat U-1105 "Panther" in the putomic river, they got that close.
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And now its the Russians, pretty scary that it went undetected for a month.
http://freebeacon.com/silent-running/
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cowboy1978</div><div class="ubbcode-body">German U-boat U-1105 "Panther" in the putomic river, they got that close.
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And now its the Russians, pretty scary that it went undetected for a month.
http://freebeacon.com/silent-running/
Re: WW2 U550 U-Boat found off Cape Cod.
The Germans operated off shore and were visible down off of the Florida coast based on some of the old fisherman that I knew down in palm beach county. The intercostal waterway runs from Maine to key west for a reason.
The Germans operated off shore and were visible down off of the Florida coast based on some of the old fisherman that I knew down in palm beach county. The intercostal waterway runs from Maine to key west for a reason.
