Posted on 06/17/2017 7:58:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
One hundred years ago this week, the Coast Guard cutter McCulloch, a world-traveled vessel stationed in San Francisco, collided with a passenger ship in the fog and sank to the ocean floor off the coast of Southern California. For almost a century, the ship was lost.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the McCulloch had been found, four miles off Pt. Conception, west of Santa Barbara.
Searching in the Deep
“It’s been decades in the works,” says Robert Schwemmer, the West Coast Regional Maritime Heritage Coordinator for NOAA. “To put the first eyes on the ship on the eve of its 100-year anniversary was very moving.”
A historian and archeologist, Schwemmer has been studying the McCulloch for three decades and always hoped to find the remains.
In 2013, maritime historian and shipwreck researcher Gary Fabian located a mass on the ocean floor using sonar. Suspecting that it might be the lost wreck, Fabian contacted Schwemmer with his hunch.
Years later, Schwemmer took the research vessel Shearwater over the potential wreck site. Using sonar, he saw high-relief images of the sea floor and a mass that could potentially be a wreck — but more importantly, he saw lots of fish.
“Fish are an indicator of habitat, and shipwrecks are great habitat,” he said......
Finally, in October 2016, Schwemmer, along with a NOAA research team and a local branch of the Coast Guard, devoted an annual reconnaissance cruise to looking for the McCulloch......
When the ROV footage revealed a 14-foot bronze torpedo launcher mounted on the bow of the vessel — a feature unique to the McCulloch — Schwemmer was sure that the long-lost cutter was found.
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Dumb-@ is trying to light a cigarette after that. How do you say “Hey Bubba, hold muh beer’n watch this?” in Spanish?
This is why FR rocks.
I didn’t even have to ask any questions.
5.56mm
50 gabillilon tons of water.
ride it out
There’s a little radio station out on Ocracoke Island that lets it’s freak flag fly on occasion, you’d likely enjoy it as I recall you have shall we say interesting taste in music. They recently had what I guess I’d call a Dale-fest show with nothing but Dick Dale and artists inspired by him, pretty fun.
The station varies widely from DJ to DJ, you never know what you’re going to hear, but if it has a “sound” in general it’s slightly warped alt-rock punctuated by slightly warped folk and country. Emphasis on the slightly warped, lol. Occasional classical, especially late on weeknights.
http://streamdb7web.securenetsystems.net/v5/WOVV
I keep telling my son its all fun and games till it aint
My musical taste is eclectic.
Dick Dale wrote Pipeline. Stevie Ray Vaughn performed it with him, but I love the Agent Orange version..
I have a live cassette of them when we hosted them at KCR radio in the 80s direct to 2 track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhHQyLCS7A
All this is totally off topic but screw all that LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-69ruPrls8
Agent Orange rocks
I used to white water.
Far more predictable than the sea, but not totally predictable.
Dimple Rock Rapid almost did me in
When I lived in Florida I did lots of off shore sailing in the Atlantic Ocean on a Morgan 30. I have been in many storms. The power of the sea is amazing.
A 30 footer won’t save ya, Check the navigation report.
I had a line on a 1974 60 foot Hatteras, twin cummings diesels
That’s living, but money was short and it was in Puerto Rico
Ahh well, opportunity lost
Got sucked out to sea on a 14 foot sunfish when the tide went out and the wind died, no running lights, just drunk shipmates.
We got over board and kicked it in.
Took hours, and cliff had to walk 10 miles back to get the car LOL
Good times
Got sucked out to sea in Fla
Interesting about the NC shipwreck the Deering. Thanks
I’ll be on Hatteras in September. I can’t wait.
Atlantic View Estates.
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