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Baltic yields 'perfect' shipwreck
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| 15 Nov 2007
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Posted on 11/15/2007 5:23:01 PM PST by BGHater
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:23:03 PM PST
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:26:21 PM PST
by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: BGHater
It’s just too bad we can’t submerge Hillery! in the
cold, oxygenless depths of the Baltic for say 200 years...
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:31:43 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Its just too bad we cant submerge Hillery! in the cold, oxygenless depths of the Baltic for say 200 years...What did the Baltic ever do to you?
To: tet68
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:36:12 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: BGHater
At a depth of 125 meters, it might be possible to salvage quite a bit of this “wreck”, but raising it from that depth may well be impossible...
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posted on
11/15/2007 6:26:14 PM PST
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts...)
To: Bean Counter
I toured the Vase and it is simply amazing what they did (both in building her and in her recovery and preservation.)
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posted on
11/15/2007 6:28:06 PM PST
by
american_ranger
(Never ever use DirecTV)
To: BGHater
Thanks. This is neat.
On a similar note there is a British ship named “Bredalbane” that went down in the Canadian Arctic in 1850. The wreck is amazingly well preserved and can be visited via submarine for $10k/person.
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posted on
11/15/2007 6:36:42 PM PST
by
Aglooka
To: american_ranger
yea, they just weren’t that good at sailing her.
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posted on
11/15/2007 6:37:17 PM PST
by
scott jefferys
(the international community has convinced North Korea and Libya)
To: scott jefferys; american_ranger
I scanned the Wikipedia article on the Vasa. Her intended firepower was equated to the larger, and 700-ton heavier USS Constitution.
So, fitting all that firepower on a fairly small platform, what did they expect?
To: BGHater
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posted on
11/15/2007 7:36:56 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Calvin Locke
State of the art technology always involves a certain amount of risk. Think of WW1 airplanes. As primitive as they seem now, they were the best in the world at the time, and were extremely dangerous to fly, just because the technology was new and untried.
To: BGHater
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posted on
11/15/2007 9:37:23 PM PST
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: SunkenCiv
Too modern for GGG?
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posted on
11/15/2007 10:30:20 PM PST
by
kitchen
(Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
To: tet68
Its just too bad we cant submerge Hillery! in the cold, oxygenless depths of the Baltic for say 200 years...
...And risk someone finding her?
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:51:32 PM PST
by
Sarajevo
(You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: Lonely Bull
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:02:22 AM PST
by
MaxMax
(God Bless America)
To: kitchen; blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:10:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Thursday, November 15, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: BGHater
Nearly 400 years underwater & its masts and bowsprit are still intact.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:17:07 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:25:03 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: SunkenCiv
I think it’s a prop from a low-budget 50’s film by the famed Swedish director, Moos Moosen.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:25:39 PM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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