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Re: U-550 -- Is This a Good Description?????
Posted by:
BHenderson
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Date: July 29, 2012 01:47PM
U-550 was sunk in a known position a few thousand yards/meters from where she herself torpedoed the "Pan Pennsylvania". About a dozen survivors were rescued and placed in POW canps.
Would divers (or explorers with side-scan sonar or ROVs) going to U-550 correctly be called "finding U-550" or "going back to where everyone knew U-550 was"? I would be entirely happy with the phrase "divers establishing the exact location and condition of U-550". Sorry, I don't mean to be a curmudgeon or nitpicker here, but it seems that the word "found" should be reserved for something that was truly lost with nobody knowing where it was.
And while I am wearing my slightly skeptical (aye, even curmudgeonly) hat here, is there anyone else who is fully expecting the "U-boot" in the Canadian river to be actually a 1910's river coal barge that capsized and sank in a storm with a "streamlined" lower keel now uppermost, presenting a sonar outline that looks like a submarine??????
While I deeply respect the underwater work of divers like Innes McCartney and the scholarly research of people like Axel Niestle, I take a slightly dim view of "discoveries" that turn out to be nothing like that at all.
Would divers (or explorers with side-scan sonar or ROVs) going to U-550 correctly be called "finding U-550" or "going back to where everyone knew U-550 was"? I would be entirely happy with the phrase "divers establishing the exact location and condition of U-550". Sorry, I don't mean to be a curmudgeon or nitpicker here, but it seems that the word "found" should be reserved for something that was truly lost with nobody knowing where it was.
And while I am wearing my slightly skeptical (aye, even curmudgeonly) hat here, is there anyone else who is fully expecting the "U-boot" in the Canadian river to be actually a 1910's river coal barge that capsized and sank in a storm with a "streamlined" lower keel now uppermost, presenting a sonar outline that looks like a submarine??????
While I deeply respect the underwater work of divers like Innes McCartney and the scholarly research of people like Axel Niestle, I take a slightly dim view of "discoveries" that turn out to be nothing like that at all.
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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U-550 Found | historynow11 | 07/27/2012 10:44PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Volker Erich Kummrow | 07/28/2012 12:11PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Martin R. | 07/28/2012 12:16PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Volker Erich Kummrow | 07/28/2012 12:25PM |
Re: U-550 Found | historynow11 | 07/28/2012 03:59PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Volker Erich Kummrow | 07/29/2012 10:55AM |
Re: U-550 -- Is This a Good Description????? | BHenderson | 07/29/2012 01:47PM |
Re: U-550 -- Yes it is a good description | Michael Lowrey | 07/29/2012 03:50PM |
Re: U-550 -- Yes it is a good description | BHenderson | 07/29/2012 05:17PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Volker Erich Kummrow | 08/05/2012 04:36AM |
Re: U-550 Found | Paul Lawton | 08/05/2012 05:26PM |
Re: U-550 Found | Eric-Jan Bakker | 07/29/2012 10:15PM |