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Originally Posted by Damo
Firstly, the costs involved in moving her whole would probably have been high enough to make the likelyhood of her being scrapped a definite possibility, so chopping her up is the only compromise. Also, there is the access issue, if I were a wheelchair user with my interest in U-boats, I'd really be quite offended if somebody were to argue that I should be denied the chance to see her in her entirety just because they didn't want her to lose her shape.
I think what they've done is respectful in that it preserves her interior as she was found which probably provokes more awe than if she were restored, and nobody is denied the chance to experience her to the same level as anybody else. I'd hate to be told 'You wait out here while I go inside and see things you can only dream about'.
Cutting her was best for her and everybody who wants to see her. It wasn't done by 'butchers'.
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wheelchair access surrounds 534 - ramps and the like, but you can not go 'inside.' each section is screened off with perspex to view each section from outside. it is very rusty inside and probably dangerous, but, one of the sections has a camera inside that you can use from a screen to view and rotate.
i was really looking forward to get a U-534 t-shirt, no such luck though. the souvenier section really lets it down. the rest of it is very good but a little short. you also get to use a rig-up of the enigma: my children were faster at than me
"Cutting her was best for her and everybody who wants to see her"
dont know about this?.
i think lack of creativity and money were the paths persued. still its worth a visit just to see, after all how many u-boats do we get to see in england?
how many did we sink?