Interesting !
http://www.wptv.com/...lm-beach-county
Possible WW2 Airplane discovered near Jupiter, Florida.
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, Dec 24 2011 06:10 PM
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 06:10 PM
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 06:54 PM
Interesting !
http://www.wptv.com/...lm-beach-county
185 feet is a "typical scuba dive"? (According to the article.)
Wonder how deep an atypical dive goes with that outfit!
Edited by PlatypusMan, 24 December 2011 - 06:54 PM.
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Posted 25 December 2011 - 09:43 AM
To quote Mr. Nimoy: Fanscinating. 
And the report stirs a distant memory: Weren't the planes of the famous (to X-Filers, anyway) Bermuda Triangle Lost Squadron during WWII also Helldivers? Would it not be amazing to identify this wreck as one of those planes and discover, perhaps, other planes of that squadron within a few miles (as they all had the same fuel load for that fateful training mission)? It would solve a decades old DoD mystery and finally offer closure to the families of the lost pilots. (Or their grand and great-grand children, anyway...)
I Wiki'ed the Lost Squadron incident, more popularly known as Lost Flight 19. The model aircraft was actually the TBM Avenger dive bomber. Notice the similarity in the Wiki photo of the Avenger airframe to the Helldiver photo in the WPB TV news article. Are they similar enough, after damage from ditching and 55 years of ocean immersion, to be (at least temporarily) misidentified? *shrugs* The answer... is Out There. *Cue obnoxious whistling X-Files theme*
And the report stirs a distant memory: Weren't the planes of the famous (to X-Filers, anyway) Bermuda Triangle Lost Squadron during WWII also Helldivers? Would it not be amazing to identify this wreck as one of those planes and discover, perhaps, other planes of that squadron within a few miles (as they all had the same fuel load for that fateful training mission)? It would solve a decades old DoD mystery and finally offer closure to the families of the lost pilots. (Or their grand and great-grand children, anyway...)
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I Wiki'ed the Lost Squadron incident, more popularly known as Lost Flight 19. The model aircraft was actually the TBM Avenger dive bomber. Notice the similarity in the Wiki photo of the Avenger airframe to the Helldiver photo in the WPB TV news article. Are they similar enough, after damage from ditching and 55 years of ocean immersion, to be (at least temporarily) misidentified? *shrugs* The answer... is Out There. *Cue obnoxious whistling X-Files theme*
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Posted 25 December 2011 - 10:43 AM
Brad,
Good follow up on the story..Hope we don't have to wait for a answer & "congress" is involved
Good follow up on the story..Hope we don't have to wait for a answer & "congress" is involved
Greg
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Posted 25 December 2011 - 06:13 PM
Interesting !
http://www.wptv.com/...lm-beach-county
185 feet is a "typical scuba dive"? (According to the article.)
Wonder how deep an atypical dive goes with that outfit!
I've been deeper but I don't consider any dive that costs a hundred bucks plus just in gas fills and requires an hour of decompression a "typical scuba dive". I just don't run in those circles, I guess.
Edit: I'm assuming trimix and a decent bottom time. Why bother doing the dive withour a clear head and some time to poke around?
Edited by grim reefer, 25 December 2011 - 06:15 PM.
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