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95 years after disappearance, the USS Conestoga is found
- XJOKOLAT 11y agoAfter a long night, bleary eyes read: "95 years after disappearance, the US Congress is found" You know those nights ...
- veddox 11y agoSometimes a misread contains more truth than one would like :D
- peterburkimsher 11y agoI wonder if we'll still be looking for MH370 after 95 years.
- Geekette 11y agoSome MH370 debris has appaently washed up in Mozambique: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/debris-found-in-mozambique-likely-from-mh370-australia-says http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/debris-fou...
- bambax 11y agoWas there no radio or telegraph on board, or did they not have time to signal their position??
- Shivetya 11y agoWell radio was certainly available at the time this ship went down, however if the article suggestions are correct then waves may have crashed through the wheelhouse and that likely would have flooded out the radio room as well if not just the general mayhem of the rough seas. they could have simply engulfed, as in to go bow into a big wave and never come back out. I cannot find information the directly states what type of radio it may have had
- willyt 11y agoIt's not unheard of for ships to be overwhelmed by heavy seas. Here's an accident investigation report into the loss of a large freezer trawler in storm in the Barents Sea. The ship was thought to have lost steering, went beam on to the seas and was overwhelmed due to an incorrectly secured hatch. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-stern-trawler-gaul-in-the-barents-sea-with-loss-of-36-lives https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-stern-trawler-gau...
- mcguire 11y agoI have no idea why they didn't send a distress message, but how accurately would they know their position in a storm in 1921?
- willyt 11y agoThe officer of the watch would be expected to plot the position on the chart every 15-20 mins so even a DR position would probably have been accurate to within ~10 miles.
- freshyill 11y agoIt's crazy that they only made it 20 miles from California before hitting weather serious enough to sink the ship. I'm surprised they wouldn't have literally seen it coming before departing.
- packersville 11y agoWhat also surprised me is that from 1858 to 1907 there were 5 wrecks in that area. I wonder what the reasoning is?
- mr_justin 11y agoThe Farallons are a pretty intense little outcropping just off the coast. Doesn't make it any more appealing that it's a mecca for Great Whites.
- thewavelength 11y agoBelieving [1], the wreck has already been found in 2009 and identified to be the USS Conestoga in October 2015. Only the official announcement was made now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Conestoga_%28AT-54%29#Rediscovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Conestoga_%28AT-54%29#Redi...
- tantalor 11y agoDid they publish the exact location of the wreck? Where's the original NOAA reports from the 2009 survey or 2014 dive?
- veddox 11y ago> The Navy seagoing tugboat and its 56 officers and crew went missing so long ago that the famous bridge that spans the Golden Gate did not yet exist. Hang on - 1921 is "so long ago"? Sorry CNN, but over on the other side of the Big Pond that is recent history...
- Crito 11y agoYes yes, congratulations on having an old country.