Vessel Divers Searching Sunk Superyacht- Sicily

[Jared0425]

Air pockets are common in ships that sink quickly, the thing is just because it's an air pocket does not mean it's permanently breathable. Most people think of whole rooms being filled with air, in reality it's tiny corners where a person succumbs to hypoxia or co2 rather quickly. Even if they survive for some time the deco obligation at 50m becomes a problem if there isn't a diving bell and saturation chamber available for rescue.

Example like these are rare.

The tug landed upside down and in 90ft of water. The whole compartment was empty and was slowly filling up. As of now, that is the only deep water case ever to have happened.

 

[Angelo Farina]

It's good to hear Angelo weigh in. And I do respect Italy's pioneering work in diving, even though the early work was to make mischief.

Mischief ???
Please, elaborate...
Italians started scuba diving for military operations during WW2.
The initial group of divers were called Gamma Men, but actually they included also one woman.
They did develop special equiment, such as waterproof suits in rubber, full face masks, fins, and the famous ARO rebreather, which was at the time the most advanced scuba system, derived by improving an English system.
This Gamna Group did include Luigi Ferraro, probably the most successfull military diver of all times, as he alone did sink at least 4 English vessels. His wife was the only woman in the team, although she was never deployed in active military actions.
They also used SLCs, also called "maiali" (pigs), slow propeller-driven torpedoes. Using them, a group of Gamma incursors, called X MAS, did sink the English ships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant inside the port of Alexandria.
After the end of WW2, Luigi Ferraro was the very first instructor organising sport scuba diving courses, back in 1948.
He and his friend (and business partner) Jacques Cousteau later founded the CMAS.
I see no "mischief" in all of this...

 

[pauldw]

he alone did sink at least 4 English vessels...a group of Gamma incursors, called X MAS, did sink the English ships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant

Well, there you are!

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I see no "mischief" in all of this...

The sinking of the Elli was a tad bit naughty, don't you think?

 

[Biotech Diver]

My uncle was a US Navy Frogman (precursor to the Navy SEALS) in WW 2 in the Pacific Campaign. He told me stories of going in ahead of the Marines to diffuse Japanese mines. Wish i could have heard more of his war stories.

Mischief ???
Please, elaborate...
Italians started scuba diving for military operations during WW2.
The initial group of divers were called Gamma Men, but actually they included also one woman.
They did develop special equiment, such as waterproof suits in rubber, full face masks, fins, and the famous ARO rebreather, which was at the time the most advanced scuba system, derived by improving an English system.
This Gamna Group did include Luigi Ferraro, probably the most successfull military diver of all times, as he alone did sink at least 4 English vessels. His wife was the only woman in the team, although she was never deployed in active military actions.
They also used SLCs, also called "maiali" (pigs), slow propeller-driven torpedoes. Using them, a group of Gamma incursors, called X MAS, did sink the English ships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant inside the port of Alexandria.
After the end of WW2, Luigi Ferraro was the very first instructor organising sport scuba diving courses, back in 1948.
He and his friend (and business partner) Jacques Cousteau later founded the CMAS.
I see no "mischief" in all of this...

Mischief ???
Please, elaborate...
Italians started scuba diving for military operations during WW2.
The initial group of divers were called Gamma Men, but actually they included also one woman.
They did develop special equiment, such as waterproof suits in rubber, full face masks, fins, and the famous ARO rebreather, which was at the time the most advanced scuba system, derived by improving an English system.
This Gamna Group did include Luigi Ferraro, probably the most successfull military diver of all times, as he alone did sink at least 4 English vessels. His wife was the only woman in the team, although she was never deployed in active military actions.
They also used SLCs, also called "maiali" (pigs), slow propeller-driven torpedoes. Using them, a group of Gamma incursors, called X MAS, did sink the English ships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant inside the port of Alexandria.
After the end of WW2, Luigi Ferraro was the very first instructor organising sport scuba diving courses, back in 1948.
He and his friend (and business partner) Jacques Cousteau later founded the CMAS.
I see no "mischief" in all of this...

 

[Jared0425]

Mischief ???
Please, elaborate...

He's referring to Italian frogmen and their operations against Allied shipping in WW2. Axis operations are "mischief" in western culture.

On a side note, do you know what this tool is that they're using to cut through the bulkhead? A diver in doubles is using it, so it isn't electric or pneumatic.

 

[Still Kicking]

My uncle was a US Navy Frogman (precursor to the Navy SEALS) in WW 2 in the Pacific Campaign. He told me stories of going in ahead of the Marines to diffuse Japanese mines. Wish i could have heard more of his war stories.

Have you read "Into Enemy Waters"? A biography of one of the last of the original UDT members. I found it a good read.

 

[Biotech Diver]

No but thanks for the suggestion! I want to see if I can get my uncle’s service records from the Veteran Archives in Missouri because I really don’t know much about his WW2 other than a few conversations with him back in the 1980s before he died.

Have you read "Into Enemy Waters"? A biography of one of the last of the original UDT members. I found it a good read.

 

[ofg-1]

On a side note, do you know what this tool is that they're using to cut through the bulkhead? A diver in doubles is using it, so it isn't electric or pneumatic.

Don't bet on it.

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[drohn]

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Don't bet on it.

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