FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT SUNKEN SHIPS
Added on: 16th Jul 2016
IN 1703, THOMAS ATKINS WAS SWEPT OFF THE
DECK OF HIS SINKING SHIP ONTO ANOTHER
SINKING SHIP. A SECOND WAVE THEN SWEPT
HIM ONTO A LIFEBOAT
THE USS TANG WAS ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST
SUCCESSFUL SUBMARINES DURING WWII
BEFORE IT SANK ITSELF WITH ITS OWN TORPEDO
IN 1974, THE CIA SPENT NEARLY $4 BILLION TO
CONSTRUCT A SHIP EQUIPPED WITH A NEARLY
5KM CLAW IN ORDER TO RAISE A SUNKEN
SOVIET SUBMARINE
VASA, A SWEDISH SHIP THAT SANK IN 1628, WAS
FOUND TO HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED USING 2
SETS OF RULERS. ONE SET USED SWEDISH FEET
(12 INCHES) AND OTHER SET USED AMSTERDAM
FEET (11 INCHES)
KARL VON MÜLLER, A GERMAN CAPTAIN DURING
WWI WOULD ALLOW THE PASSENGERS OF THE
BOATS HE WAS GOING TO SINK ENOUGH TIME
TO ABANDON SHIP
THE TITANIC WAS NOT THE GREATEST LOSS OF
LIFE IN US MARITIME HISTORY. IN 1865 A
STEAMBOAT CARRYING RETURNING UNION
POWS SANK AND MORE THAN 1,700 PEOPLE DIED
THE CHEF OF THE JASCON 4 SURVIVED IN AN AIR
POCKET FOR 3 DAYS AFTER THE SHIP SANK
UNTIL HE WAS FOUND BY DIVERS
IN 1986 A SOVIET SUB (K-219) SANK WITH MORE THAN
30 NUKES ON BOARD. WHEN THE SOVIETS FINALLY
REACHED THE WRECK 2 YEARS LATER, THEY
FOUND THAT THE HATCHES HAD BEEN FORCED
OPEN AND THE NUCLEAR WARHEADS WERE GONE
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