U-505 Visit Pictures

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Artists intellectual property my ass.

You should've said "I'm not inside yet. You should say "No pictures within the pressure hull" :p

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Artists intellectual property my ass.

You should've said "I'm not inside yet. You should say "No pictures within the pressure hull" :p

no photos inside???? WTF that's BS

How's that?
Ol' mcbee saves the day.

[August]

FYI the man who captured her, Admiral Daniel Gallery, is an accomplished writer. Besides "20,000 tons under the sea", the story of the U-505, which iirc is still sold at the museum gift shop he also wrote several books on navy life after the war. They're out of print now but if you run across a copy in a used book store pick it up. They're all good reads.

[nikimcbee]

more from the secret innards of the U-505.

[nikimcbee]

...and they need to dump the tour guide.

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

...and they need to dump the tour guide.

Indeed, in a Museum I like to walk my phase
and dont need a babbling tour guide who is rushing the tour around.

HunterICX

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Indeed, in a Museum I like to walk my phase
and dont need a babbling tour guide who is rushing the tour around.

HunterICX

They're not always bad!

When I toured the Soviet D-2 in St. Petersburg (pictures of which I showed before), the tour guide was a retired diesel sub captain. He absolutely loved the boat and the job too I suppose, and his personal experience really showed all through the tour.

But I guess when the tour guide is just a hired hand without much interest in subs, who's basically reciting a script - maybe not so cool. :hmm:

[Ironclad2]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Indeed, in a Museum I like to walk my phase
and dont need a babbling tour guide who is rushing the tour around.

HunterICX

I did write the museum a note about this. My suggestion was to give people a hand-held audio tour (the USS Nautilus tour used to use this) so that people would hear the history, but could also hang out longer in a compartment if they wanted. However, I imagine their reasons for doing the guided tour were a.) in a cramped U-boat it's necessary to keep people moving, else it gets very crowded very quickly; and b.) money. The exhibit was free, but the tour was an extra $5. Worth it once, not worth it twice, especially when the tour guides didn't know much more about the U-boats than was in the script for the tour.

Oh, and Kapitan_Phillips, that's precisely what I said. :p