Any News on the Oriskany

[amascuba]

From the video, it looks like the O will be resting on her side, guess I will keep working towards my Trimix certification if I ever want to explore the hanger deck of this monster.

You would probably want to be trimix certified to explore the hanger decks, even it had stood straight up. At the depths that the hanger depths would have been; it would have been easy to go into a decompression obligation. I suspect that there will still be parts of the ship will be explorable from recreational depths, but it's going to be a non-prenetrating dive and somewhat of a short dive. It will probably be within the 90-130 depth ranges for recrational divers. Instead of a "reef dive" it will be more like a "wall dive".

 

[Lt9]

I just heard from the LDS that we booked with that the tower is at 80' and the deck is at 150'.

 

[firechuk]

Check out www.oriskanymemorial.com. She went down in 35 minutes, no word yet that I can find on her final resting position.

 

[LPX2Sea]

I just heard from the LDS that we booked with that the tower is at 80' and the deck is at 150'.

Ouch, that's gonna take a bite out of the expected revenue Pensacola was hoping for. It's now out of the range of many of the recreational divers who would have gone if the deck had settled at 110' as predicted. Now it's a marginal dive for many just to make it to the top of the tower. If that depth is correct, it ruins my plans.

 

[drbill]

Sure are a number of threads already on this subject, some with pix posted. My two cents worth:

I just heard, based on reports from side-scan sonar and divers, the flight deck is resting in 150 ft of water but the tower is at 60 ft. What happened to the calculations? I thought the flight deck was supposed to be at 130 ft. However, I did just read that at least a portion of the flight deck may be at that depth.

My guess is that the increased depth will (or should) greatly limit the number of recreational divers who will be interested in diving this wreck. If true, projected revenues from increased tourism to the area may not meet expectations. If false, I'd expect more divers to be heading for the nearest chamber.

Disclaimer: I'm not a big fan of wrecks, especially new ones (without growth) that are below rec limits.

 

[yodelli]

Local dive shop here has dove on the on and reports at 130 ft,Here is the link to their forum:

http://pub9.bravenet.com/forum/737693202/show/505785

http://www.mbtdivers.com/