Posted on 05/27/2009 6:36:35 AM PDT by tgusa
Live video feed from Key West of the sinking of former USNS Vandenberg to form an artificial reef
Actual sinking supposed to happen at 1030 EDT. Video link in case I messed up the post:
http://www.sinkthevandenberg.com
Having trouble with the link.
Sorry, I don’t post much - see the link in #3.
It must be my internet connection.
500 Server Error
A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.
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Cannot connect here, either.....
It’s not you..
Video WAS up about 0935. Looks like some technical problems now - the live feed is from a small boat via WiFi about 7 miles from Key West. Hopefully they’ll get it back online.
video is up now (1000)
the top of the ship will be just 40 feet from the surface... will that be a hazard to some of our warships?
It will be annotated on the charts, in Notices to Mariners, etc.
Anybody still here - they blew the charges at about 1022; the ship sank less than 3 minutes later. AMAZINGLY fast!
did anybody see the live stream of the scuttle? i couldn’t get it. this was poignant for me, as i sailed on her sister ship, USNS Gen HH Arnold a couple times. i know folks who sailed on the Vandy and even on both ships. the Vandy did most of her AF sailing on the Eastern Test Range, and the Arnold was mostly Pacific. sometimes, they worked together as with some of the Apollo space shots. i was privileged to have been on the last two missions of the Arnold before she was mothballed.
When i first heard about the idea to scrap the Vandenberg a couple years ago, i was saddened. now, i’m all for it.
does anybody know if they scraped the cyrillic lettering from the movie off the hull before she went down? ;) reeko
I saw it; there are also photos on Fox News online. She went down quickly, less than 3 minutes. It was quite dignified. I don’t know about the cyrillic lettering - suspect they did probably scrape it off.
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