Ocean Off Hawaii Filled With Wreckage

See, all things come to the surface eventually ...

HONOLULU - From junked trucks to World War II submarines, vast fields of far-flung wreckage exist beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii.

"It's like an obstacle course under water, especially at Pearl Harbor," said John Smith, science program director at the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. "Finding the more interesting artifacts is a real challenge."

A World War II-era Japanese submarine scuttled by the U.S. Navy is the laboratory's latest significant find among thousands of wrecks, most from the past two centuries.

The ship is one of two I-400 Sensuikan Toku class subs captured in the Pacific a week after Japan surrendered in 1945. Both subs were deliberately sunk by the U.S. when Russian scientists demanded access to them. The 400-foot-long hulks were the largest built before the nuclear ballistic missile subs of the 1960s.

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The wreckage's still underwater.

Standard mo after the war was to simply drop and run. Push them overboard. Everyone's seen the films.
Just think how much gas has been used in Iraq, alone. I want numbers. They know the numbers. And I'll bet the oil used is more than all of the oil we could have ever gained. That might be far fetched, but with all of the support activity such as food and clothing and ammunition, the fuel useage must be absolutely staggering. And then the pollution. Hawaii isn't alone. Sometimes I laugh when I think of the EPA. What a joke. Tread lightly? What a joke. There is no perspective. There is no justice. Sorry. I hate to sound so pathetic. But these kinds of thoughts have gone through my head since I was a young child. Some of us are just natural engineers. Energy, pollution, population. It's hard not to see clearly, for me. And it hurts. But the rest are forced to catch on, now. The truth cannot be submerged for long.

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Having so many military vessels underwater could raise concerns about unexploded munitions, but experts say the material is far from the shoreline and popular beaches.

"I've never heard of an instance when anyone has been injured by these old munitions," said Suzette Farnum, who owns Captain Bruce's diving company on Oahu's Waianae coast with her husband. "I'd assume the salt water has kind of trashed them anyway, but you don't want to take that chance by picking them up."


... uh okay. :eyes:

locker?Mickey Dolenz's locker?Arrr.I can never keep these things straight.Arrr.