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Very cool Marco.
I read the whole site with interest. Here's an
easier link to click on for our members to access your site.
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:29
PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Ship reefing for
tourism
HI
all,
Not every old ship is destined for the scrappers...
apart
from dreams of building subs I have actually been carefully extracting parts
of an old warship to preserve the rest of it as an artificial reef of the
coast of Wellington, New Zealand.
This project has taken me 6 years
and we are now less than a month away from sinking a Batch 3 Leander Class
Frigate, complete with her guns...
see
www.divewreck.co.nz
If you
want to stay in touch and keep posted on the days leading up to and
preceding the sinking....
email
<subscribe@divewreck.co.nz>
Next mission is
to build a sub and go play on it and the many others shown on our website.
Kind Regards
Marco
Scrap value is the
value after the labor of reducing it to bite size chunks has been paid and
the cost of a dry-dock to dismantle it in has been taken out also.
Steel is expensive to buy, but scrap isn't bringing that
much.
As far as making it sea worthy,
they may need a lot of retrofits to bring them to today's seaworthy
requirements. Even as a museum, they may need updates to make them
safe for the public to go through.
Lets face it, there destine for the
scrappers torch like so many subs and ships before them..
Dan H.
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Original Message -----
From: Akins <mailto:lakins1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:03
AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] British/Canadian
subs for sale thread.
I could be wrong, but I think the scrap value of the subs
in the below link would be more than $50,000 to $60,000
each.
As for them
deteriorating so badly that they could not even be used as static
museums, how could a hull that thick be in such
bad shape
that they couldn't even float as museums? Possible I guess, but
rusted thru a pressure hull? They are floating now aren't
they?
They did not say "rusted thru" but why else would
they be unusable as static museum attractions? Something doesn't
feel right to me about this article's statements.
Bill.
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:fxAgWbfi5NcJ:www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/25/subs050525.html+Submarine+for+sale&hl=en
<http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:fxAgWbfi5NcJ:www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/25/subs050525.html+Submarine+for+sale&hl=en>
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