Pictures of the Wreck U-864 
Posted on 12/20/2006 12:49:16 PM PST by SmithL
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Pictures of the Wreck U-864
Pretty wimpy winch! Density of mercury (Hg) is ~13.5 g/cc (water is 1 g/cc). The capacity of a typical dive tank is maybe 12 liters (12,000 cc). So we're talking 162 kg total, or about 76 lbs.
Kewl! That just happens to be the amount in a standard size flask that another poster used to calculate the value of the Hg on the submarine!
That is one dead U-boat.
Thanks for posting.
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Math is a little off. 162 kg = 356.4 lbs. Still pretty wimpy performance for a winch.
356 lbs
Please disregard my previous post. Converting in the wrong direction. You are correct.
Well, it ain't gonna get any better.
No! Wait a minute...2.2 lbs to the kilo. Yeah! I was right the first time.
Oh, He** with it! I'm going to go get a beer.
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I liked pushing the little balls together to watch them form a bigger ball. I like that stuff. Naturally, I like lead and asbestos as well.
That is for sure. I follow these recovery stories closely. I'd love to be there.
I got really bent out of shape when I learned that the stupid French filled a submarine pen with gravel and concrete ... with three U-boats still in them. I still get into a hissy fit when I think of that.
Maybe they were trying to haul it up by hand. I think it saw it in the late 1970s.
people here in michigan have been warned for years not to eat too much fish caught in the lakes due to high mercury levels. What they dont say is that the alleged mercury that is allegedly contained in the larger fish supposedly centers in the fatty area which in the larger fish (trout, salmon etc.) is removed during the filleting process.
As for the other smaller pan fish, they aren't bottom feeders either so how the heck can they be contaminated with mercury? given the humoungous numbers of walleye, bass and perch fishermen on Lake St. clair, I have yet to read of any 3 eyed babies being born.......
Retarded liberals, yes but I don't blame them on the fish......
Pray for cold, pray for ice then pray for perch........
There's an old Time story with more details, at least the ones that were known in 1975. It's all still pretty sketchy, but it's the kind of a story Tom Clancy couldn't make up.
I know it's a whole lotta mercury. As I said, it's heavier than the water, so most of it would hang around on the bottom of the North Sea. Currents would push it around some, which would cause some of it to escape, but we're talking movement like that by the molecule.
The Great Lakes have quite a bit the stuff in them, cuz of industry. I can't remember if it was from mining or if it was from the paper industry. I think a lot of inland lakes & rivers also have it. Most of it stays in the sediment on the bottom. If they're worried about it, they should test the fish in the area, cuz it stays in their fatty tissue.
Game fish will eat the bottom feeders & once it gets into a person's or fishes system, it stays there. You're right though, most of the parts of the fish where it stays are removed when the fish is filleted. Most of the warnings are for small children & pregnant women.
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