Underwater Treasure
 

http://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w...1-e17d87b8b6a0


http://www.weather.com/science/news/...den-shipwrecks

Very nice, very nice indeed. A beautiful world down there, deadly and yet so sublime, taking over that that we have dropped in it.

The Thistlegorm is a good wreck for diving I've heard and has some very interesting cargo on it, AA guns, trucks, motorcycles and two steam locomotives.

Here's a nice map someone has made of it:

http://followdom.files.wordpress.com...histlegorm.jpg

Here's a picture of one of the locomotives, a Stanier 8F:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5168/5...df28e5cb_b.jpg

More underwater treasures,

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...pswkznzxon.jpg

Some awesome pictures in that lot, some great ideas for a diorama :yeah:

I remember a 70's issue of National Geographic had an article about Truk Lagoon I found in my dads collection. I just remember being fascinated by it. So much so that I produced a small scale version in the pond in the back yard my mother caught me tossing a toy truck in and made me "salvage" the toys I had already thrown in. Later sometime in the 90's NG did ran an article on Bikini Atoll.

Now Bikini Atoll would be well worth investigating. Not too sure of what is still left of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa (at least three battleships and numerous smaller vessels) but that is another place that would be well worth visiting.

This is not underwater treasure, but it is a real concern to a beautiful area. :yep:

Not sure what happened to the oil tanker that was sunk in WWII.

These two articles are from 2001: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1505791.stm

Quote:

A US tanker sunk in World War II is leaking thousands of litres of heavy fuel oil into one of the world's largest and most unspoiled lagoons.

http://www.ussmississinewa.com/OilLeakingPR.html

Quote:

Governor Figir’s said, "that the remaining major problem is the amount oil (1,000,000 or more gallons) remaining in the ship, which gives us only one certainty—that it will burst open one day from typhoons and cause a much bigger catastrophe.

Fortunately they've been able to drain a fair bit of the oil from the tanks of that tanker, the USS Salvor lead a mission in 2003 to drain the tanks. The oil was subsequently sold for 50c a gallon, re-refined and is back in use today.

The SS Richard Montgomery on the other hand....

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...07_640x951.jpg

Slight Deviation from the OP, but....

The only surviving photo I have of my SCUBA trips...

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps4a6raywm.jpg


I need to get back there.... Especially since I have a GoPro now.....