Not sure if it has been published here…but are interesting news.
By: oshawaflyboy - 15th October 2006 at 02:33
Hi folks;goto NHC main page and look at the legal section.
They are staying on the bottom sorry to say.
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th October 2006 at 16:30
The submersibles on the bismarck/titanic trips are very expensive (up to $100,000 a day) to hire and give no more if not less advantage than an ROV vehicle.
The wreckage does look in fairly good condition but recovery of anything (esp aircraft) would be very costly and have few benefits to whoever is footing the bill.
curlyboy
By: EN830 - 11th October 2006 at 09:39
I wonder if there would be sufficient interest to charter the Russian survey ship used recently on Titanic and Bismark ( I watched the latter on TV last night – amazing.) to go take a look?
Hairyplane
Paul Allen (Mr Gate’s silent partner) would be the chap to write to, they used his yacht on the Ark Royal trip and I believe that he has an interest in historic aviation.
By: Hairyplane - 11th October 2006 at 09:18
Macon
I remember reading about this in Aeroplane Monthly(?) many years ago – the underwater photographs of the aircraft were amazing.
I wonder if there would be sufficient interest to charter the Russian survey ship used recently on Titanic and Bismark ( I watched the latter on TV last night – amazing.) to go take a look?
I read somewhere that some of the survivors were laughing uncontollably in the water, a combination of the relief of survival and the distortion to their voices caused by the gas. Take a lungful of Helium from a birthday balloon, shout ‘Help’ and you’ll see what I mean!
Fascinating stuff.
Hairyplane
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