Underwater Wrecks

[willedoo]

Some photos of sunken warplanes, a Corsair, P38, Jake Seaplane & a F4 Phantom in Subic Bay:

 

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2009/12/deep-blue-sea-aircraft-aircraft-carriers-lost-beneath-the-waves/

 

Better quality photos of the Phantom from the original source, looks like it's been stripped of parts & pushed overboard:

 

http://www.colours.dk/anders/diving/wrecks/f4/f4.html

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[Spin]

Great photos thanks - now how about a couple of derelict airframes for somewhere off South Stradbroke Island?

 

 

[Guest DWB]

Thanks Willie - Great pics. Isn't it nice that Anders allows them to be reproduced with the appropriate credit etc.

 

Reminds me of that saying, which I can't recall correctly, something to about lots of planes in the ocean but you don't see any ships in the sky..........

 

 

[willedoo]

Great photos thanks - now how about a couple of derelict airframes for somewhere off South Stradbroke Island?

There's a lot of WW2 stuff north of Moreton, but too deep for divers. A lot of old munitions & some aircraft parts. A friend of mine pulled up a large propeller in his trawler nets in the early 80's. Unfortunately, he didn't get to keep it as he had to cut it free to stop the boat rolling over & I doubt he got any photos. The story I heard back then was that it was all supposed to be dumped out past the continental shelf, but they cut a few corners & dumped it prematurely on the shelf. All I ever saw was a few mortars & mustard gas cylinders, but larger bombs were regularly trawled up. From memory, they usually only worked that area when prawns were scarce elsewhere. I was told it was dropped by air, so I don't know if ships also dropped anything like airframes there. Too deep for us to see, anyway.

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[willedoo]

Also some links to the WW2 Japanese ship graveyard at Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. They say there's a lot of aircraft there, these photos only seem to show a Mitsubishi Betty & an Emily flying boat:

 

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2011/11/diving-the-spectacular-japanese-ship-graveyard-of-truk-lagoon-micronesia/

 

Original source:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gh0st/tags/wreck/

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[siznaudin]

Reminds me of that saying, which I can't recall correctly, something to about lots of planes in the ocean but you don't see any ships in the sky..........

Ship .... Airship.

 

 

 

[Alan Spears]

Here is a painting I did of a wreck off Coolangatta,Queensland. Acrylic on stretched canvas 40cm x 50cm.

 

VH-BRD, a Sunderland had been written off after an accident in the Brisbane River. An enterprising man purchased the aircraft with a view of converting it into a floating resturant on the Tweed River. It was being towed by a tug,but the weather deteriorated and it took on water and started sinking. The tug had to cut the line and the flying boat slipped beneath the water and glided to the bottom. Despite many searches,it can't be located.