Live video from USS Macon (ZRS-5) wreck site -- Aug 18, 2015

[ALOHADAVE]

Video Highlights posted on youtube
also link here

http://www.nautiluslive.org/video/2015/ ... ft-carrier

Sparrowhawk biplanes in "extremely worse" condition compared to 9 years ago.

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Last edited by ALOHADAVE on Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[ALOHADAVE]

compare video to this picture from 2006
"Extremely Worse" current condition

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[Pogo]

Dang it, I just don't have time to track this down -- can anyone say what depth this wreck is? Thanks!

[m50a1ontos]

The ROV was at 1432 feet IIRC.

[shrike]

I'd say it's a fine example of the Navy's long-standing saline storage program.
Hopefully the new management will see this as a wake-up call

[Russ Matthews]

compare video to this picture from 2006...

I believe that picture is actually close up detail from a model diorama of the Macon debris field displayed at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

http://www.steelnavy.com/NMNASparrowhawk.htm