The most amazing carrier video you will ever see

[Ben]

They've had the engines taken out too.

[Lynn Eades]

Not only were the engines gone from them, some showed bullet holes through them. I suspect that if one was pulled out and cleaned up, that it would prove to be a disappointment.

[kevin powles]

Gents, I believe these were : Israeli Bren Gun Carriers dumped in the sea when they with withdraw from Sinai in 1948.

I have seen before black and white photo's of that drivers armour mod before, will try and locate it, some of the carriers still have the engines.

Kevin.

Nice site to check out : http://www.ointres.se/latrun.htm

[arie teomim]

HI ALL,
the story arouses my curiosity. so, I am going to make a research about it.
few facts that I do know now-
1- the only time the Israeli army used carriers was during the war for independence in 1948, and they were caught from the Egyptian army.

2- during the 1967 conflict the Egyptian army used Russian weapons and armory.
3-there were no carriers in the area during the seventis. I know that for sure, I was there at the time.
SO, I guess these carriers were caught in SHARM EL SHECH in the south of the SINAI dezet. It realy looks like these carriers were dumped into the sea.
at that time there was no road from SHARM EL SHECH to ISRAEL. so maybe, thats was the reason that it was dumped to the sea.
but, as I said, this interesting, and I will research it.
arie

[Richard Farrant]

Like this Israeli Carrier ?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...takh_tikva.jpg

[kevin powles]

Richard, No!, That's something they have put on to stop people climbing in it, not service use applied. I need to find that picture.

kev.

[Marc Montgomery]

Someone once said there is a similar vehicle/ammo dump in the St Lawrence and shown in a Jacques Cousteau show/documentary.

Does anyone know if this is true, or another urban myth?

Would it really be that hard to take a few balloons down, give them all a shot of air from spare scuba tanks , tether and let the air lift them?
With different lengths of tether, balloons near the surface could be filled almost 100% to provide max lift, I guess the tough part would be breaking one free, once free. lifting and slowly towing to shore might not be so difficult? or is this just silly?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Not only were the engines gone from them, some showed bullet holes through them. I suspect that if one was pulled out and cleaned up, that it would prove to be a disappointment.

Definately, just have a close look at the wrecks pulled from the Normandy seabed at Port-en-Bessin. The armour on Sherman tanks has been seriously thinned down by corrossion, thinner armour on a Priest has even been corroded away. Those carriers are best left at the bottom of the ocean for divers and fish to enjoy

H.

[Lynn Eades]

Hanno, I did notice that none of the divers touched any of them. I imagine they are protected already.

[David Dunlop]

Marc

The St. Lawrence wreck does exist. I cannot recall if the ship was torpedoed on it's way out of Montreal or sank following a collision, but a good part of it's cargo was a shipment of Valentine tanks. Nothing was ever salvaged because the currents are very bad at the location it went down and the visibility not that great either. I think it is in a part of the river that bears the effects of the downstream river current and upcoming tidal bore effects. I did see a TV show about them many years back but cannot recall the source.

David

[eddy8men]

this valentine washed down a river in india last year, the locals thought it was the latest Pakistani tank and were up in arms about it until the army took it away . as far as I know they still don't know it's a valentine

[kevin powles]

Originally Posted by eddy8men

this valentine washed down a river in india last year, the locals thought it was the latest Pakistani tank and were up in arms about it until the army took it away . as far as I know they still don't know it's a valentine

Rick, This is what we should really be after..................!