The most amazing carrier video you will ever see

[kevin powles]

Gents, Set aside 15 minutes and go full screen, sound turned up.........Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/DEpz9KQCkUY

[Ben]

The Thistlegorm is in the same area and has a some earlier mk1 carriers on it too. Don't remember them offering this dive when we were there last year.

The Thistlegorm is good too, lots of bikes, trucks and a couple of steam engines for good measure if you want to check it out. Massive wreck.

[RichardT10829]

Seen that before, they were all shoved off the ship en route home apparently. Thistlegorm is a good wreck but it's over crowded with divers and the wreck in comparison to a few years back is a shadow of its former self

[eddy8men]

amazing video, just makes you wonder how much stuff is still out there

[RichardT10829]

Looking at the hulks, there is very little concretion on there so I reckon the hulls are salvageable, the more fizzy metals like the tin work and tracks perhaps not, but I bet the diffs could be saved in most too. Massive massive cost to re float and rescue them mind

[David Dunlop]

I remember a show on TV a few years back about a chap in England who made his fortune after the war salvaging wartime wrecks around the world. He focused on ships with cargos of metal ingots and developed a technique of popping the freighter's hull outwards in such a way the deck collapsed straight down. It was then lifted clear of the wreck by a large custom built claw he designed, leaving the cargo holds clear for hard hat divers to salvage. One ship he worked on off the North American coast had a deck cargo of a dozen or so Shermans. The ship had sunk upright after being torpedoed and he had lifted all the Shermans off the deck and placed them on the sea bed around the hull. Strange to see them all sitting there.

David

[arie teomim]

this vidio was uploaded here in the past. I just got thid picture that may explan how these carriers got into the botom of the see

[Robert Bergeron]

I did not know Carriers could fly inverted ...

[Lynn Eades]

Indiana Jones is driving. He'll scrape through

[andrew honychurch]

Its bizarre in many ways to think that my Dad, 92, may have helped manufacture some of those very Carriers. He was working at the Sentinel Works in Shrewsbury in the early 40s before entering service with the RAF. Anyone who wants to know anything about the process. Now is the time to ask. Dad still has very accurate recollection of all aspects of this build. Let me know and I can ask him andrew@honychurch.com

[Lynn Eades]

Andrew. As there are no adjustments in the gear change system, it seems to me that a bit of judicious "tweaking" was carried out, to make things fit / operate smoothly. What might your dad have to say about that aspect?