Posted on 04/24/2018 4:01:22 PM PDT by BBell
Amazing pictures! Thanks for posting them.
But if the ship was in perfect condition, as per the title, it wouldn’t have sunk!
By looking at the electric fan, squared blades and wire cover pattern, it looks like early 1910s. (Amazing the fireplace stayed lit all these years /s)
OK, I got concerned because so many independent comments were made about it (nothing to indicate joking).
:-)
I am qualified as a Rescue diver and I used to teach dive classes. I have dove everything from farm pond looking for a wedding ring someone lost(I have an underwater metal detector) to rivers, Lake of the Ozarks, a lot of dive trips to the Caribbean on "bareboat" catamarans and a trip to an island off the coast of South America (Bonaire).
You can do 270 I have a friend who has done 300 But you have to be well trained and you are using Mixed gasses (Trimix). If you look at the pictures of the divers you can see them with all kinds of tanks strapped to each of them. The small tanks are hooked to a "Rebreather" that recycles the air they are breathing you can use that to some depth just below 200ft. When you get deeper you switch to trimix gas, and that consists of compressed air, helium gas, and Nitrogen gas. Breathing compressed air at that depth will kill you.
The deepest I have dove is about 180ft. I'm not into deep diving. Once you get to 200ft and deeper it start to get dangerous.
to the bottom
Thanks colorado tanker. And wow. Those interior shots are spectacular. Some years ago an underwater explorer in Lake S found a lumber-hauler about the age of this ship. The cargo was intact and consisted of large logs including elm. He had planned to raise the logs as they are probably of great value. The last large (worth cutting) tree cut down around here is from, you guessed it, about 1910, the trunk cross-section was about the height of the men who'd cut it down.
I think I saw Leonardo DiCaprio!..............
“I have a Westinghouse that looks like that one. Had no idea it could’ve been as old as 1911. ‘Runs real quiet, bought at a yard sale.”
There’s websites devoted to those. Nice find. You might be surprised at what collectors pay for them.
Screws. Unless you like such things chasing you around the compartment during a storm, they are secured to the deck.
Chairs can’t be moved back from a table?
MY GOSH! What an amazing work of art that thing is!!!
It was a personal yacht of the top of the line at the time it went down. Gold leaf and all.
btt
Hmmmm! Forgot about the chairs; thinking about the tables & piano.
The inertial dampers must have continued to function until she settled. :-’)
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