Re: Submarine Movie? or TV?

[protek@shreve.net]

Dick,
    I may need to make a correction.  The Hunley may have been built in
Alabama not Louisiana.  However, there were four or five being built.  The
Hunley was the only one that was actually taken into battle.  It killed
three (3) crews!  I hope most Psubbers have better luck getting started.  
    The Red River is a dirty river actually, very dirty.  You could not see
your hands in front of your face.  Plus there is a current.  I would
imagine that they are covered in silt.  But, this could be good for a
recovery project.  Because little oxygen may have gotton to the hull.  I
just don't know.  We will use magnetometers.  I have a boat and motor and
also a remotely piloted 8-foot surface craft that I can place a mag on.
There was an article a while back in the Shreveport Times about the subs.
There is also a tin clad gunboat in the area.  Nobody knows just where the
subs sank but think they are near the mouth of the Red.
    Oh, I am not one of those that thinks things should remain burried.
Especially if nobody is in them.  I think they should be raised and at
least one placed as an exibit here in Shreveport.

Gary Boucher




At 04:46 PM 7/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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
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