dvankirk
Contributor
For anybody who knew or cares that this sub is in the Chesapeake Bay, we were able to successfully find and dive the wreck a couple of weeks ago. The silt bottom was at 145' (with the bedrock that the sub rests on somewhere below that) and visibility ranged from 0 to 5 feet - conditions not for the faint at heart. The video is what you would expect from such poor vis, but with lots of light and a great captain, we landed on what we believe to be one of the two gun decks within 10 feet of what we think are the two periscopes shears. We didn't have enough time to get definitive evidence as to the damage done to the sub from the Navy's explosive testing in 1961, but it is there.
[video=youtube;YYen4OmImDc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYen4OmImDc[/video]
[video=youtube;YYen4OmImDc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYen4OmImDc[/video]