Was anyone here part of the historic B25 recovery from Lake Murray

[chickdiver]

Fascinating The narrative said when it was laying on its side that was the signal that the divers had gotten something in place. It made it sound like the SMB was vertical while they worked then tipped over if they were successful.

How long were the "shifts" underwater and what kind of deco obligations did you have? It looked like you always brought one team up before sending another one down so briefings could be done.
Ber :lilbunny:

HAH! There is no way to keep those really big SMB's vertical! The film crew did a great job of editing, but when we watched the show we "nit picked" a lot of things like that. They got it all mostly right though!

We did work in shifts, and we needed to know what the previous team completed task wise before the next team went in. We had the rotation set up such that we had a standard runtime of about 90 minutes.

 

[mikerault]

I wanted to help do some underwater photo work, Had talked to Dr. Bob Siegler about it but I couldn't make my schedule work. You guys did a great job!

Mike

 

[Gene_Hobbs]

Thank you. * What part did you play in the project?

Heather was "The Executress".

This reminds me that we never did finish getting our daily reports online... http://rubicon-foundation.org/B25.html

Lifting...

and a little cleaned up...

 

[SparticleBrane]

I still can't believe I saw pictures of Brian in a jacket BC...

 

[CheddarChick]

Way too cool....How did it get found in the first place? Does anyone know if it will be shown again? Can't find it on the history channel...

 

[mikerault]

Doc Seigler had heard the stories about it and had a general location, he paid to have a magnetometer scan by the Navy and the initial dives. He then did all the paperwork to get ownership from the Army, then SCEG.

He also found the debris field from two that disentegrated on impact.

Mike