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| DavidM |
Raise the Musashi?Has all the makings of an epic scam - Musashi Holiday World anyone?http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/10/23/PROV20081023138756.html David |
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| Brews |
Even if that wasn't a fake report, don't expect anything to come of it. | ||
| DamienB |
A grave for over a thousand sailors... and nearly a mile down. It's not just morality that will keep her on the seabed. | ||
| DavidH |
Supposedly the Japanese have asked in the past for permission to salvage the HMS Prince of Wales, so maybe their interest in leaving a sailor's final resting place undisturbed only applies to their own?
I can't see it happening either. Has anyone surveyed the wreck site? I haven't seen anything online. The last that I saw, it hadn't even been found yet. Given the size and depth, it sounds an impossible task. |
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| Beaufighter |
"...it was hit by a barrage of tornadoes..."
Spooky! Didn't know we had weather control in 1944! |
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| Brews |
The real interest in ships manufactured prior to August 6, 1945 is in reuse of the steel for medical purposes, as a lot of oxygen is used in making steel, and the oxygen in the atmosphere was tainted forever in the atomic age. $$$$$$ | ||
| dancho |
I believe this post should be mentioned in today's dispatches. 
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| Keiron |
Here's an online discussion on it -
http://members.boardhost.com/Warship/msg/1224759976.html |
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| Sailorman |
I won't be holding my breath ....... | ||
| Beaufighter |
I heard that too. It's called "clean steel", isn't it? And you can't make radiation-sensitive parts with anything else? |
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| Brews |
That's the gist of it. It makes the scuttled High Seas Fleet very valuable, as these are not war graves. | ||
| brian horrocks |
i realise the salvage is not going to happen but am i right in believing the japanese actively support the recovery of their war dead so the remains can be laid to rest according to shinto beliefs? this would make the war grave status a bit more fluid (no pun intended) | ||
| Keiron |
The japs have been seeking permissions from the British Govt to salvage the Prince of Wale and Repulse since the end of the war.
They simply do not seem to realise how offensive this is to those relatives who lost people on both ships. It seems to be more commercial-driven than any sympathetic religious remembrance thing. Keiron |