Hi all

I think that as a lot of die hard cussler fans that it would be intresting if we could try and find information/pictures and facts regarding the ships that have been found by numa or other shipwrecks that you know of and may yet still not have been surveyed.

I find one part of the sea hunters 2 book very intresting and would love to solve the mystery on page 389 it reads :

The first target was a mystery we still havent solved. The sonar readings showed what is most definitly a destroyer, with a the aft hundred feet totally missing- almost as if a giant hand had sliced it off with a knife. The stern cound not be found or sidescan sonar. The best guess is that the ship was torpedoed but did not sink right away

I will contact Dr. Cussler and ask for what information he has on this and then let you know, if anyone else is intereseted in helping solve this mystery then let me know.

may you all be well

Matt

Welcome Admiral Sandecker !!

Last year I presented Clive with this book, "Bitter Victory : The Death of HMAS Sydney".

The HMAS Sydney/HSK Kormoran engagement on 19 November 1941 resulted in the loss of 79 or 80 German seamen and the entire Sydney crew of 645 men and boys, coming from virtually every major town and city in Australia. It was a major blow to the Country as a whole in WWII and was an unexplained loss that many families had been unable to come to terms with, some expressing concerns decades after the event.

HMAS Sydney is somewhere off the coast of Western Australia waiting to be discovered.

Those are all unknown ? waiting to be found if you want to see pics of wrecks in fresh clear water search ontario shipwrecks . wrecks in the area of tobermory ontario canada the water there is clear to about 50' the wrecks are well preserved and easy to dive on . todd

I used to dive Tobermory with the Buckeye Wreck Divers! Beautiful water, very cold, but that helps keep the wrecks in excellent condition. A great place to vacation with beautiful rock formations and islands. My favorite wreck was the Arabia in about 110' of water. These days I spend a lot of time in Ontario every summer as I am a boater from Ohio and it only takes a day to get over to the other side of Lake Erie on a sailboat. I love Rondeau Bay and Leamington, they are my favorite places with wonderful people and great marinas. Erie actually has a few wrecks of it's own especially in the Pelee point area, and the Canadian water is clearer than most people realize, but it is nowhere as clear as Tobermory. Good to see that others on this site are aware of what the Great Lakes have to offer.

in sea hunters 2 CC mentions his finding the remains of the s.s. vandalia in shallow waters in the caribbean but never does anything to follow up on it. i would like to know more about this ship.

hi gang, while researching info for the quest the other night i came across an article about the loss and cover-up of the LEOPOLDVILLE on the history channel. As many may remember, a u-boat torpedoed the ship Christmas Eve, 1944, claiming the lives of about 800 men from the 66th int. division, on there way to reenforce troops fighting in the battle of the bulge. The cover-up that followed may be the worst in maritime history, involving the governments of at least four (4!!!) countries, and taking almost 50 years to come to light. This has been an important subject for me as i lost an uncle on the LEOPOLDVILLE, and i can tell you my grandmother went to her grave NEVER knowing what happened to my uncle John. Anyway, if your interested in learning more about the ship and its fate, hear are two sites that will give a lot of information:

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/leo...e/producer.html

http//www.leopoldville.net

If anyone else knows any other sites, let me know. Thanks, David

leopoldville,

Unbelievable! Typical cover-up by people in the highest places with no compassion for the families of the missing men.

In Australia, we have our own cover-up on a similar scale ;

HMAS SYDNEY

Cheers

http://www.wreckhunter.net


This is a fabulous website for shipwreck information! :rolleyes:

If anyone here is interested in War of 1812 shipwrecks...come up to Lake Champlain. Plattsburgh & Vermont have museums up here that are great for it. Burlington VT has a great maritime museum.
There are places where wrecks are in shallow water that you can actually go snorkelling on a nice sunny day and see them.

I plan on going snorkelling this summer and check out 2 of them near Westport, NY.

I found these articles today regarding the Titanic and the Hunley. CC is mentioned in the Hunley Articles.

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http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/25249.htm t:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20..._tvtitanic.html


http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/news.ez?viewSt...sess_id=1813941


http://www.campchase.com/current/