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Old 02-06-08, 12:28 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Scrapping would involve breaking it up into pieces (I know, I know), then making it into razor blades or hairs straighteners.
Thats what they are doing to parts of it!
You may well be shaving with the lower midships of U-534 in the next few months.

:hmm: The article mentions she "will be split into four pieces using a diamond wire cutter". That does not sound like they are tossing anything away or truly scrapping anything. I admit it's a shame to cut her up at all, but it is not like they are tossing large chunks of her into the smelting furnace.
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