Re: Submarine Movie? or TV?

[Dick Morrisson <rmorrisson@unidial.com>]

Gary,
Not being from the area, I don't know anything about the Red river.  Are you
not in favor of raising the other subs or are the conditions very bad, i.e. viz
low, current high, bottom covered with deep muck, unknown obstacles all over,
or all the above?  I've done zero viz diving and I know it's not fun but 3 old
subs would be quite a treasure to bring up.  Is the location pinpointed?  Maybe
Al could bring down his magnetometer when it's done to help find it?  I know, I
shouldn't be volunteering other people or their stuff, sorry Al.  More details,
please Gary.
Dick Morrisson

protek@shreve.net wrote:

> Psubbers,
>     In regard to the Hunley, a confederate submarine that sunk a Union
> warship and was lost in the effort, few people know that it was not the
> only confederate submarine constructed.  Four subs were built in
> Shreveport, Louisiana at a confederate shipyard located at the mouth of
> Cross Bayou where it flows into the Red River.  Interestingly enough they
> are still there.  When the yankees were approaching this shipyard they sunk
> them all in, or around, the mouth of the bayou to keep them from being used
> by the Union navy.  I did not know this until about 2 months ago when I was
> asked if I would be interested in an effort to raise them.  Another irony
> here is the fact that my sub, The Vindicator, is stored in my airplane
> hangar located about a mile from the sinking site.  And NO, I do not plan
> to put my sub in the Red River!!!
>
> Gary Boucher