USS Saratoga

[Scott L]

That's the French navy for you - can't even sink their own boats.

How do you view the French navy? A glass bottom boat.


As Homer Simpson refers to the French - "Cheese eating surrender monkeys".

 

[Gilldiver]

You can add the HMS Campania to the list of Carriers. The Campania was a Cunard Liner headed to the scrap yard in 1914 when she was bought by the Royal Navy and converted into a Carrier. She sank in the Firth of Forth after a colision with the battleship Royal Oak. She is in about 130 feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Campania_(1914)
MaritimeQuest - RMS / HMS Campania (1893) Page 1
Campania Wreck
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/es/campaniasitedescription.pdf
Scotland's shipwrecks opened up to divers - The Scotsman

 

[mike_s]

That's the French navy for you - can't even sink their own boats.

well they even tried selling one a few years ago.... (no I'm not kidding).


Here's the flyer for one of the French Navy carriers for sale.


if anyone wants to make a good dive site.... we could start a fund raiser?

http://survivalmonkey.com/survinfo/General Reading/Slightly Used Carrier.pdf

 

[Scott L]

well they even tried selling one a few years ago.... (no I'm not kidding).


Here's the flyer for one of the French Navy carriers for sale.


if anyone wants to make a good dive site.... we could start a fund raiser?

http://survivalmonkey.com/survinfo/General Reading/Slightly Used Carrier.pdf

Have the unused guns been removed from the decks?

 

[mike_s]

Have the unused guns been removed from the decks?

At first I was wondering what you meant by unused, then I remembered it was French




wanna see something funny.


Goto Google, put in French Military Victories and click "I feel lucky"


this is what you'll get

 

[Scott L]

At first I was wondering what you meant by unused, then I remembered it was French




wanna see something funny.


Goto Google, put in French Military Victories and click "I feel lucky"


this is what you'll get

To further call in question French military prowess I offer the following history lesson of Cinco de Mayo (I researched what I was truly celebrating some years ago). When a nearly pacifist country kicks your ass it is indeed time to employ some history book revisionists in the French educational system for self esteem purposes.

http://clnet.ucla.edu/cinco.html

 

[Kevrumbo]

USS Saratoga (of course)
USS Oriskany (another easy guess for anyone)
HMS Hermes - sunk on April 9, 1942 off the east coast of Sri Lanka. Sits in 60m of water.

what is the 4th?


As a note, the next carrier to be sunk will supposedly be the USS Forrestal. But it will be sunk deep.




whoops... I didn't see that reply when I posted. I think you're right.

Graf Zeppelin

I'll be going on a Hermes Expedition next year April 2010. . .

 

[electric_diver]

Anyone been there?

Yes in September 2006. The wrecks of Bikini Atoll are fantastic and should be on everyone's want to dive list. However the dive operation was poor for many of the reasons described by fdog. The diving was overly regimented and generally featured too many divers in one place at one time hurrying from place to place to keep with the plan. There was also a fairly heavy political agenda injected in to the operation (ie the US is evil for screwing over poor Bikinians).

Flying Air Marshall Islands was a unique experience. A buddy of mine has pictures of the duct tape that was used to hold the plane interior together. It is not surprising that they went out of business.

We did Truk and Bikini for a week each in 2006. We went back to Truk for two weeks in 2009. That should tell you all you need to know about the relative merits of the dive operators.

 

[Gilldiver]

Stumbled across another Aircraft Carrier over the weekend. Well its actual a Seaplane carrier but it has the same name as one here: HMS Hermes, torpedoed near the Dover Straight in WWI.

YouTube - Diving the First World War Seaplane Carrier HMS Hermes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(1898)
HMS Hermes (+1914) WRECK

 

[Oyster Diver]

I stumbled across this thread and thought, has anyone ever dived on all the accessible aircraft carriers? I know some people raced to climb all the highest peaks on every continent, why not all the carriers? Just a thought. I haven't done any so I'm out.