3 ms·
According to Wikipedia the wreck was found in 2009 and this article was about when it was first imaged. Although it isn't clear to me why exactly the Independe
by slg 8y ago
According to Wikipedia the wreck was found in 2009 and this article was about when it was first imaged. Although it isn't clear to me why exactly the Independence needed to be found in the first place since it was intentionally scuttled. Was the location of the ship classified? Or was the record keeping from the 1940s so bad they the Navy didn't record the location of a scuttled ship or listed it as something vague like "off the Farallon Islands"?
- sitharus 8y agoShips don’t sink in a straight line, knowing where it sank does not give an accurate position for where it rests.
- nothingburger 8y agoAgain: Who fucking cares? It was sunk under controlled circumstances. The location of sinking was planned as a disposal effort. It was put down in a place, such that it would come to rest in a zone suitable to render its radioactive payload distant and unreachable. Knowing where it was destroyed on the surface gives a high reliability cone of descent. It goes down from the surface with a degree of drift that will not exceed certain parameters. It would surprise me if they found it on the moon. It would not surprise me if they found it 100 miles from the point it sank.