Wrecks under Truk Lagoon Deteriorate: news report

Why does the above post read like a SPAM message?

Apologies if it’s not, but you comment is rather vague and the address looks rather suspicious. 🙂

The OP’s newspaper article link, the second link from soggy to a Japanese youtube video, are both safe, and both worth the look.

regards

Mark Pilkington

The thread title has a large element of surprise contained within it -those wrecks have been deteriorating since the day they went down.

The surprise appears to be that they continue to do so. I mean, what do they expect? Aluminium or steel in sea water is a great combination for rampant corrosion and it’s going to continue until they have rotted away completely – looting or no looting.

Anon

My issue is that they are getting robbed. Looting is looting after all.
I have seen a documentry on Truc, as soon as another ship was found it was raided. Would this be OK on a Lancaster, Halifax, Spitfire wreck?

Not a surprise really, it has been almost 70 years after all. But what hasn’t been mentioned is the amount of looting of the wrecks by tourists and locals.

While I appreciate the significance of these ships as war graves, to be honest looting parts at least saves them. Eventually all that will be left is a red stain on the sea bed.

And………………Is that good or bad?

Hazard a guess, the clue is in the word ‘looting’.

Why does the above post read like a SPAM message?

Apologies if it’s not, but you comment is rather vague and the address looks rather suspicious. 🙂

Thank you for this post, most interesting.

Could I please add the following video, which I thought was ‘delightful’:

http://youtu.be/pey8wHBDHak

But what hasn’t been mentioned is the amount of looting of the wrecks by tourists and locals.

And………………Is that good or bad?

Not a surprise really, it has been almost 70 years after all. But what hasn’t been mentioned is the amount of looting of the wrecks by tourists and locals.

Hi All,
Many thanks for the very interesting post DaviIsby.

Geoff.