Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on July 10, 2019, 10:36:32 AM
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Looks like the salvagers are on the loose again.
https://www.livescience.com/65894-dutch-wwii-era-submarines-vanished.html
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Salvaging a shipwreck usually requires blowing the vessel apart with explosives, then spending days or weeks hauling any valuable metals up onto the surface with a crane. For their trouble, scavengers can come away with millions of dollars' worth of steel per ransacked ship, plus other spoils, such as copper cables and phosphor bronze propellers, according to the Guardian article.
I was wondering how they did that. This makes a little more sense. I am sure there is plenty of brass and such. I didn't think the price of steel was that high.
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There was a discussion here about the disappearing ships a couple of years ago, and apparently the steel from those wrecks, especially the very high quality armor steel, is in extremely high demand because it has no radioactive background signature associated with the dawn of the atomic age.
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^ August 2018
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=58058.msg1173034#msg1173034
A quite interesting and wide-ranging thread, going beyond non-radioactive steel.
Terry
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Wow. Didn't realize that it was that recently.
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I must apologize again for making a joke about mining "Iron Bottom Bay" for this steel before I realized that it was considered a hallowed area since it was the final resting place of all the casualties there.
A prime faux pas on my part.
A pox on the desecrators.
Terry, 230RN