Drones offer bird’s-eye glimpse of Md. ‘ghost fleet’ (Videos)

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | August 17, 2016 6:44 pm | Tiffany Arnold

[COBOL2Java]

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Chesapeake Conservancy and Terrain360 are using drones to give a bird’s-eye tour of historic shipwrecks in an inaccessible zone of the Potomac River.

WASHINGTON — There’s a corner of the Potomac River known as Mallows Bay that is teeming with sunken vessels, what has been described as a “ghost fleet” of more than 100 wrecked ships.

You don’t even have to go beneath the river’s surface to get a good view of these ships. In fact, you don’t even have to leave your computer chair, thanks to the Chesapeake Conservancy’s latest effort.

Through the use of drones, the Annapolis-based nonprofit and Terrain360 created a virtual tour of the shipwrecks, which are in an inaccessible portion of the river in Charles County, Maryland.

Jody Couser, a spokeswoman for Chesapeake Conservancy, said drones were used to capture aerial videos of the fleet. The footage was posted on the organization’s YouTube channel as a three-clip series Tuesday

[22202NOVA]

Read Tom Clancy’s Beyond Remorse for a different view of the ghost ships.

[Red Badger]

If it’s inaccessible, how did THEY get there?????.....

[OldSmaj]

Tom Clancy did not write "Beyond Remorse".

He wrote "Without Remorse", in 1993.

"Beyond Remorse" is a pulp about 1940's Kansas City, written by Mike Chase in 2007.

[Donglalinger]

[golux]

I remember my first Chesapeake and Potomac cruises in an old wooden sailboat - before GPS projections - and "missing" a restricted zone to be greeted by some very mean looking operators in a Zodiac right out of Missing in Action (3?) (2?)

Kenny Bunk was aboard for one of those "whoopsies!"

http://www.chesapeakeboating.net/Media/Feature-Stories/Don-t-Go-There.aspx

[SuperLuminal]

I have lost many crankbaits, jigs, and spinner baits in that bay...

[mason-dixon]

This Ghost Fleet was being built to support US in the World War I. Never left port. They were abandoned here.

More at http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/08/sport/ghost-fleet-graveyard-nature-green-environment-sanctuary/

[Noob1999]

Maybe someone should alert the EPA that the DOD is responsible for pollution of the Potomac River, yet if NASA placed a thermometer site there, they could get a nice warm reading to advance their Globull Warming narrative.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Google maps, Mallows Bay, Bingo!

[BwanaNdege]

Don’t mess with “Mr. Clark” or his loved one!

[1rudeboy]

For later

[Albion Wilde]

Ping, hon!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[ops33]

Looked at Mallows Bay on google maps and it doesn't look very inaccessible to me. In fact, their is a boat ramp there.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Nope. Not if the description here is right. Hundreds of ships? And clearly some are wooden. States at least RevWar era to WWI.

This is fascinating; wish I knew before. Never mind the sunken fleet (actual) at the Patuxent.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks, hon.

[Bigg Red]

I found this on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ed9zhjHslc

Well done and less annoying narration.

[Albion Wilde]

Oh, thanks for that! What dudn’t get innuh wudder araoun here?