Norwegians to raise submarine

Fishupdate.com ^ | 4/2/2010 | Fishupdate.com

[Thrownatbirth]

Too risky to raise. Bury it Chernobyl-style.

[Sequoyah101]

Watch this. They will drop or break it while raising and the mercury will be released.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How about sucking it as clean as possible of the mercury.

[rlmorel]

Hm. That would seem like a sensible thing to consider.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

That is not the only problem that they have to deal with. There might be live torpedoes inside the wreck.

[Oceander]

Anyone want to bet that it breaks up while it’s being lifted, and spills mercury all across the entire seabed on which it’s resting?

[csvset]

which contains 65 tons of mercury

? 65 tons of mercury? How? Why? What?

[rlmorel]

It immediately brought to mind “Shadow Divers”.

Wow.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Norway should just convert a few hundred of its sovereign gold ingots into fishing weights by drilling a hole thru ‘em. Then lower the weights into the vicinity of the mercury, and if the ingots come up coated with merc, it will show the containers were breached.

[rlmorel]

Boy, I sure hope not. That would suck for everyone. I think HiTechRedneck is right...that would have to be safer than trying to raise that thing.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

According to decrypted intercepts of German naval communications with Japan, U-864’s mission was to transport military equipment to Japan destined for the Japanese military industry, including approximately 67 tons of metallic mercury in 1,857 32 kg steel flasks stored in her keel.

[csvset]

Thanks for that info.

[Oceander]

I agree. Entombing it is really the only way to go.

[tubebender]

Good point! That is 130,000 pounds of mercury and I doubt the sub weighs that much?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The submarine was thought to carry uranium oxide, like its sister ship U-234. There was no radioactivity emanating from the boat

[Thrownatbirth]

According to Underwater Times, the U-864 is at 150 meters and also carried Me-262 jet aircraft parts and 22 torpedoes. Could be dicey.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I think this German sub was broken into two parts by the torpedo from the british sub.Your idea sounds better.I would bet the same company that raised that russian sub will get the job if the do go ahead with the raising.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Her sister ship U-234 carried technical drawings, examples of the newest electric torpedoes, one crated Me 262 jet aircraft, a Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb, and what was listed on the US Unloading Manifest as 560 kg of uranium oxide.They surrendered to the Americans.There is a very good documentary on this.