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USS Indianapolis FOUND!!!

#1 Post by emperor_andreas »

I-58's victim is missing no longer. Paul Allen has found another famous ship.

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wow, a Buzzfeed article that doesn't make me wanna rip my hair out
any way, it's really cool that they finally found it. i wonder how many more WW2 wrecks are left to be located
I sincerely hope they are found before they are illegally salvaged like an unfortunate number of ships in the Pacific are.
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John_McCarthy1 wrote: August 20th, 2017, 4:17 am wow, a Buzzfeed article that doesn't make me wanna rip my hair out
any way, it's really cool that they finally found it. i wonder how many more WW2 wrecks are left to be located
I sincerely hope they are found before they are illegally salvaged like an unfortunate number of ships in the Pacific are.
True! Though I'd at that depth she'd be safe, most of the illegal salvaging happens in water under 300m of depth
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#4 Post by emperor_andreas »

Yeah, wrecks such as Indy, Yorktown, and the ones off Guadalcanal are probably safe. Even most of the ones in the Philippines are, such as the Leyte Gulf wrecks...they're just too deep for these metal-hunting criminals to get to.
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well that's good, I was just thinking of an article I read earlier in the year about a Chinese ship that would go out under the guise of "research" and use a crane to steal the metal from ships, I think it was a couple of well preserved well they were ww2 Japanese transport ships
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#6 Post by emperor_andreas »

Sadly, a couple of wrecks have been removed completely, including De Ruyter.
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That's some news!
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#8 Post by emperor_andreas »

Was on Facebook this morning and found a video the BBC put together. Managed to snag this image of a sonar scan. Looks like just that small piece of the bow is on its port side; the rest of the wreck appears to be upright!

Now only Chicago, Helena, and Juneau remain unlocated for USN cruisers sunk during the war.

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#9 Post by BB1987 »

I do not even spot the circular opening of the barbettes, but squared objects instead. Might it be that the turrets are still in place? That would be even more suprising than the fact she is upright.
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#10 Post by Ollie »

More pictures of the wreck from Paul Allan's twitter, and it looks as though the turrets are still in place.

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