Midget Sub Sydney.

[tracy_from_oz]

Hi

I know I am a little late but I thought I would post this in the wreck section, as I posted the link to the video footage in the Australia thread but I am not sure how many wreck divers venture there.

If I am in the wrong spot of you want to join this to another thread feel free.

These are some links to the mini Japanese sub found in Sydney.

This is to the 60 mins video on their web site.
http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?t=m163

Some articles.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/last-of-the-midget-subs/2005/11/25/1132703380846.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1518670.htm

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2006_11_26/story_1834.asp
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20811357-2,00.html

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2006_11_26/story_1837.asp
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1797804.htm

 

[brutus_scuba]

Pretty amazing video well worth the time it took to watch at work... Even my boss was ooggling at it and he's not a diver. I"m at such a loss for words right now b/c It's such an unbelievable story. I couldn't imagine finding something of such importance.

 

[Gilldiver]

Don't touch it, don't even go near it:

Things are getting a bit out of hand I think.

Zylotech buoys to protect Japanese sub
High-tech buoys fitted with video and acoustic equipment, manufactured by
Australian company Zylotech, have been purchased by the NSW government to
protect a Japanese midget submarine recently discovered off the coast of
Sydney.

A 500 metre protection zone was established around the sunken World War II
midget M24 submarine after it was found by divers last November, 64 years
after it disappeared following a Japanese attack on Sydney Harbour.

The NSW government now has purchased Zylotech's SeaWATCH Long Life Camera
Sonobuoy to police the heritage site.

The sonobuoy contains acoustic and video surveillance technology to monitor
and alert authorities of any incursion into the area.

In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Zylotech chief executive
officer Nicholas Sikiotis said the exposure the product would gain through
the deal could be "pivotal" to securing other maritime surveillance work,
such as on oil and gas platforms.

"With the SeaWATCH remote telemetry buoys, Zylotech is able to offer remote
offshore multi-sensor platforms as well as seamless integration with
land-based camera and vessel monitoring systems, such as AIS, allowing
operators to access remote information from a distributed buoy/camera
network," Mr Sikiotis said.

"This reference site could be pivotal in gaining further access to a wide
range of maritime surveillance and marine research applications, including
oil and gas platforms, aquaculture facilities, environmental monitoring,
marine mammal research, defence and critical infrastructure facilities."

The M24 disappeared after three Japanese subs entered Sydney Harbour on May
1, 1942, in an attack that killed 19 Australian and two English sailors
aboard the barracks ship HMAS Kuttabul.

The fate of the other two subs was always known, one of them blown up by her
crew after it became entangled in a defensive boom net, and the other sunk
by a depth charge.

But the M24 escaped, and its whereabouts had remained a mystery until a
group of divers found the submarine off Sydney's northern beaches.

The wreck now is protected under the federal Historic Shipwrecks Act and NSW
Heritage Act.

 

[texdiveguy]

Interesting for sure!