New Wreck : Brewster Buccaneer (Pt Loma -- 280 fsw)

[beldridg]

Santa came early and @California Diver had done it again!

The Brewster Buccaneer was a miserable failure as a WW II aircraft; however, that doesn't mean it isn't an amazing airplane to dive!

We are very sure that we have identified a Buccaneer deep off of Pt Loma. There are a number of characteristics which allowed us to make the identification. We have identified the variant, but we have NOT been able to identify the specific Bureau Number. The records for Buccaneer crashes are basically non-existent.

It is a pretty rare airplane with only two aircraft still in existence.

The whole story along with a photogrammetry model (yes, at 280 feet deep) along with a ton of photos and information on how we made the identification is posted at the link below:

Brewster SB2A Buccaneer (Pt Loma — 280 fsw)

Background Santa has come early and Tyler has struck gold once again! We had seen a ROV video taken during a survey but we weren’t sure of the location. After a lot of hard work, research, an…

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Here is a screen capture of the Buccaneer photogrammetry model:

You can see that she has a lot of really nice white metridiums on her.


Enjoy and sign up for the blog!

- brett

 

[Rich1280]

Thanks for this, I particularly like the explanation of how you worked to identify the model, that's really interesting. Thank you.

Rich

 

[beldridg]

Thanks for this, I particularly like the explanation of how you worked to identify the model, that's really interesting. Thank you.

Rich

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And there are a few others on the site...

- brett