The most amazing carrier video you will ever see

[RichardT10829]

Seen that before, they were all shoved off the ship en route home apparently. Thistlegorm is a good wreck but it's over crowded with divers and the wreck in comparison to a few years back is a shadow of its former self

[eddy8men]

amazing video, just makes you wonder how much stuff is still out there

[RichardT10829]

Looking at the hulks, there is very little concretion on there so I reckon the hulls are salvageable, the more fizzy metals like the tin work and tracks perhaps not, but I bet the diffs could be saved in most too. Massive massive cost to re float and rescue them mind

[David Dunlop]

I remember a show on TV a few years back about a chap in England who made his fortune after the war salvaging wartime wrecks around the world. He focused on ships with cargos of metal ingots and developed a technique of popping the freighter's hull outwards in such a way the deck collapsed straight down. It was then lifted clear of the wreck by a large custom built claw he designed, leaving the cargo holds clear for hard hat divers to salvage. One ship he worked on off the North American coast had a deck cargo of a dozen or so Shermans. The ship had sunk upright after being torpedoed and he had lifted all the Shermans off the deck and placed them on the sea bed around the hull. Strange to see them all sitting there.

David

[arie teomim]

I would say that these are more likly from suez conflict in 1956, ant from the 1967 conflict.
arie
ISRAEL

[meduffer]

Makes me wonder how much equipment was dumped in the ocean or lakes after the war. I'd like to find those lakes...

Mike Snetsinger

[RichardT10829]

The Brits are known for it.... I think Arie is right, it's either from the suez or the remains of a return journey after ww2, most of our kit in the European theatre was given to the Russians but I am unsure what happened to the Middle East stuff. There is some sort of wheeled kit in amongst the carrier pile but cannot make it out, anyone any ideas ?

[Billruston]

Great vidio kevin, I bet the hulls are more than salvageable, the amount of stuff that was sunk etc just seems crazy!

[arie teomim]

the british ship SS Thistlegorm was sunk on october 1941 by a GERMEN bombers. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3GpiOpklUk
there were only two carriers on bord. hte ship was sunk un the suez bay.
so, this is not thae place of the Italien divers, even it is also in the red sea.
i fiind it very interesting that I dont see remains of a sunken ship in the I talien movie.
in any case, it looks like the botum of the red sea full of carriers.
arie

[charlie fitton]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

I remember a show on TV a few years back about a chap in England who made his fortune after the war salvaging wartime wrecks around the world. He focused on ships with cargos of metal ingots and developed a technique of popping the freighter's hull outwards in such a way the deck collapsed straight down. It was then lifted clear of the wreck by a large custom built claw he designed, leaving the cargo holds clear for hard hat divers to salvage. One ship he worked on off the North American coast had a deck cargo of a dozen or so Shermans. The ship had sunk upright after being torpedoed and he had lifted all the Shermans off the deck and placed them on the sea bed around the hull. Strange to see them all sitting there.

David

If you run across that video again, please share (or let me know). I can't find it either..