Misplaced Priority
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Is that area prone to the same kind of ripping currents that you find on the Speigel Grove?
Oriskany Sinking Today (May 17th)
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mike_s
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SuPrBuGmAn:
the boat that was on the flight deck wasn't strapped. it was sitting there. it held the explosive detonation equipment and they intended it to float off as part of the sinking.
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I don't understand why the Navy or someone didn't confirm yesterday if the ship was upright or not. It's a 900 foot long ship. You should be able to see the outline of it easily from a helicopter or put a pickle-bucket with a glass bottom in it. If you can see the ship, you can tell if it's upright or not.
H2Andy
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Walter:
well, still no news anywhere
typical of the media to cover a story and leave out the single most important
detail to divers
Daylonious
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Misplaced Priority:
From what I understand the area they picked for the sinking is supposed to have none to very light currents.
lamont
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Viper: I flew with your old man. VF-51, the Oriskany. You're a lot like he was. Only better... and worse. He was a natural heroic son of a ***** that one.
Maverick: So he DID do it right.
Viper: Yeah, he did it right... Is that why you fly the way you do? Trying to prove something? Yeah your old man did it right. What I'm about to tell you is classified. It could end my career. We were in the worst dogfight I ever dreamed of. There were bogeys like fireflies all over the sky. His F-4 was hit, and he was wounded, but he could've made it back. He stayed in it, saved three planes before he bought it.
Maverick: So he DID do it right.
Viper: Yeah, he did it right... Is that why you fly the way you do? Trying to prove something? Yeah your old man did it right. What I'm about to tell you is classified. It could end my career. We were in the worst dogfight I ever dreamed of. There were bogeys like fireflies all over the sky. His F-4 was hit, and he was wounded, but he could've made it back. He stayed in it, saved three planes before he bought it.
Just got off the phone with MBT Divers in P-Cola -- they still don't know if she's upright yet.:11:
Though the guy on the phone did say that they have people out there right now who are supposed to report in as soon as they are within cell phone range of land.
...aaarrggg...the suspense....
Though the guy on the phone did say that they have people out there right now who are supposed to report in as soon as they are within cell phone range of land.
...aaarrggg...the suspense....
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Lt. Harry Brubaker: I'm a lawyer from Denver, Colorado.
Mike Forney: Then what are you doing in a smelly ditch in Korea, Sir?
Lt. Harry Brubaker: I was just asking myself that same question.
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mike_s
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WetDawg:
As a somewhat related note.... for those of us planning on diving the site. I got calls from the site yesterday from someone who was a Sprint cell user. They said the other peoples other brand/vendor cells on the boat would not work that far out.
Just FYI if anyone wanted to know what brand/vendor cell phone worked on the site.
Sprint uses a different technology, which is usually useless unless you are in a city area, but it appears to work better at the Oriskany site. now with that said, it's was very poor quality call and the call was dropped several times also, so it's not perfect. I think overall we can expect very little ir not any cell coverage that far out.
24NM offshore is over the horizon...unless the nearest tower is really, really tall.
H2Andy
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or you could have a tiny tower, but on top of a really tall building
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