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To: cabojoe

Active Captain has the Navy slips at 32 to 37ft. Ship draws 29ft. Say the deck is 29 ft above water(just a guess), they would have to find 55+ feet of water to get it below water.


113 posted on 07/13/2020 5:39:55 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

I’d guess the flight deck is closer to 60 feet above the waterline. That was the case with the LPHs of the 1970s


161 posted on 07/14/2020 9:13:17 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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