SB Spree4All Wreck Trivia & fun stuff

[scubadada]

Are you talking about the Duane, upright, and the Bibb, on its starboard side?

 

[tomfcrist]

Elena, I didn't want to jump in and answer all your trivia questions..lol.

Here's a good one, how long did it take to tow the Vandy from VA to Key West? On what day did it arrive?

 

[mselenaous]

Excellent Craig.

Good one Tom. Let's see who knows.

 

[mselenaous]

 

[mselenaous]

Anyone?

I'll go ahead and ask another question then.

Fire Down Below, 1957, staring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
Was filmed on which vessel that is now on our wreck-trek

 

[aue-mike]

Actually, the THUNDERBOLT was never officially a USN vessel...


THUNDERBOLT

The Thunderbolt was originally built as the U.S. Army mine planter Major General Wallace F. Randolph in 1942/1943 by Marietta Manufacturing of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. She was a Comanche-Class Auxiliary Minelayer with a length of 188.2', a beam of 37', and she displaced 1,300 gross tons.

Transferred to the custody of U.S. Navy in 1951, she was designated as an auxiliary mine layer ACM-15, however, she was never commissioned into the U.S. Navy. She was berthed at Charleston, South Carolina as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In February 1955, she was re-designated MMA-15, and re-named the Nausett (or Nauset). She was later moved to Green Cove Springs, Florida, where she remained in reserve until struck from the Navy Register in July 1960. She was stripped and sold in May 1961 to Caribbean Enterprises, Inc., Miami. She was subsequently renamed the Sea Searcher, and served as an oilfield exploration ship.

The research vessel Thunderbolt got her final name by serving as a stationary focal point for lightning strikes. Researchers from Florida Power and Light used two jet engines to blast ionized gas into the upper atmosphere, attracting large numbers of strikes on the target vessel. Following the lightning research in the early 1980s, she was to begin a new career as an underwater surveyor vessel. Unfortunately for the Thunderbolt, she sank at the dock in Miami Harbor, resulting in over $400,000 in fines levied by the USCG.

Members of the Middle Keys diving community bought her in 1986 and paid to have her cleaned and prepped as an artificial reef. She was scuttled in 120' of water off Marathon on March 3, 1986.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[mselenaous]

Thanks Mike for the clarification on the previous question.

So 2 pending trivia questions:

Here's a good one, how long did it take to tow the Vandy from VA to Key West? On what day did it arrive?

I'll go ahead and ask another question then.

Fire Down Below, 1957, staring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
Was filmed on which vessel that is now on our wreck-trek

Anyone out there want to venture a guess to either?

 

[mselenaous]

 

[mselenaous]

No guesses? Anyone?

 

[mselenaous]

Ok I cave,
Movie was filmed on the Adolphus Busch.

Now can you name the 1999 movie which featured the satellite dish exploding on this wreck?