Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 1:45:39 GMT -6 727sky, Doug, and 3 more like this

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Post by Daitengu on Aug 8, 2015 1:45:39 GMT -6

While a survey was being done sonar found 24 sunken vessels .......

Theyre believed to have been sunk by american forces afer japans surrender at end of second war ......

Would be interesting if they made it into an underwater park for divers to explore them ....... makes me wish had learned how to dive ....... think time look into diving lessons .....

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 2:15:42 GMT -6 minstrel63, omegalogos, and 1 more like this

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Post by 727sky on Aug 8, 2015 2:15:42 GMT -6

The outlines of the 24 submarines were first spotted in July by coast guard researchers during a geographical study off the island chain by the Kaiyo underwater research vessel.

They were all sat about 200 meters down on the seabed and located 35 kilometers east-southeast of Fukuejima island, which is situated at the south end of the chain.

To deep for scuba but yes would be interesting to explore. The Marianas has a bunch of WW2 ships from both sides sunk and people go diving there quite a bit. I do promise you this.. There are things in the ocean that will just kill you without a thought...even if you are not looking !

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 6:49:00 GMT -6 727sky, Daitengu, and 2 more like this

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In the ocean..we're just another scooby snack to the big ones, eh?

I would love to see a place like that after this time has passed tho. I wonder how much of the hulls remain and are recognizable? Then again...how was that to answer when they originally went down? American forces may have blown the crap out of them, after stripping them before sending little more than shells down. That would be a bummer to discover nothing but the metal tube with some skeletal sections of the frame and little else but the original shape.

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 12:03:56 GMT -6 727sky, Daitengu, and 1 more like this

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Post by minstrel63 on Aug 8, 2015 12:03:56 GMT -6

How could this be a mystery?

Sinking a bunch of hulks like that, is not a small task - and who would/could have considered it 'not worth recording'?

Makes me wonder about nuclear waste & materials locations.

Is it possible that they (too) will be 'forgotten'...when a hundred years later, or so, someone stumbles upon one...and takes some home to show the gang?

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 18:10:04 GMT -6 727sky, Daitengu, and 1 more like this

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Aug 8, 2015 12:03:56 GMT -6 minstrel63 said:

How could this be a mystery?

Sinking a bunch of hulks like that, is not a small task - and who would/could have considered it 'not worth recording'?

Makes me wonder about nuclear waste & materials locations.

Is it possible that they (too) will be 'forgotten'...when a hundred years later, or so, someone stumbles upon one...and takes some home to show the gang?

How I understand what happened was, the US had decided to rush the sinking job of these Japanese Sub's because the Russians wanted to inspect them and possibly tow one or two back.
The Submarines were very advanced and more than one of these sub's could carry two planes like a submerged aircraft carrier and those sub's could come to the surfuce and in something like 20 minutes launch their planes to bomb our shipping.

I think at the time, they didn't record the sinking location thinking that they were in deep enough water.

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 20:00:13 GMT -6 Daitengu likes this

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Post by minstrel63 on Aug 8, 2015 20:00:13 GMT -6

@guohua,

Thank you. Interesting information.

Still, however, I would suspect that there is record, somewhere.

Did they simply find them in the location, and sink them where found?

Even if 'hurriedly' and 'secretly' were watchwords for the operation - it seems that said operation had coordinates...at least - that would have been recorded.

Anyway - not like it makes any difference now that they have been found.

~Carry On

Aye, Aye, Sir

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Submarine graveyard with 24 vessels found off nagasaki Aug 8, 2015 23:01:31 GMT -6 Daitengu and minstrel63 like this

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Aug 8, 2015 20:00:13 GMT -6 minstrel63 said:

@guohua,

Thank you. Interesting information.

Still, however, I would suspect that there is record, somewhere.

Did they simply find them in the location, and sink them where found?

Even if 'hurriedly' and 'secretly' were watchwords for the operation - it seems that said operation had coordinates...at least - that would have been recorded.

Anyway - not like it makes any difference now that they have been found.

~Carry On

Aye, Aye, Sir

No, these were Japanese Subs the turned themselves in at the end of the war and the sub's caught in port.
We inspected as best we could with the limited amount of time we had and had a small crew of Japanese submariner's take them out and we pulled the crews off and we sank them, I don't think they cared about keeping records of the location.

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