Douglas C-47 Dakota + Sikorsky S-58T = Reef

Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:28 am

Four Douglas C-47 Dakota transport planes used during the Vietnam and Korean Wars, as well as six Sikorsky S-58T helicopters, are dropped into the sea in this way

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... ml?image=3

Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:16 pm

Well thank goodness they didn't go to waste, I mean they could have more easily been scrapped.

Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:50 pm

Actually, that is the UK branch of the Navy museum, they are preserving them for future generations.

Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:14 pm

what a historical waste..... chalk 1 up for the fishies & the handful of scuba divers, the heck with us land lubbers :angry:

Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:21 pm

Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:59 pm

does anyone know what serial numbers they were?

Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:32 pm

I've never been a fan of planted "diver safe" wrecks of any sort.

I find them rather sterile and boring.

Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:55 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:Actually, that is the UK branch of the Navy museum, they are preserving them for future generations.

You didn't hurt anything on that stretch did you?

Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:42 pm

A German site show some additional small pictures.

Part one:
http://www.diveinside.de/aktuell_Flugze ... _3449.html

Part two:
http://www.diveinside.de/aktuell_Kuenst ... _3452.html

Part three:
http://www.diveinside.de/aktuell_Kuenst ... _3457.html

Part four:
http://www.diveinside.de/aktuell_Hubsch ... _3461.html

Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:17 pm

Those C-47s could have been much better utilized if they had sold them to Basler or something. At least they could have made a buck or two on the airframes.

I guess they are banking on tourist dollars making them more of a profit. Unfortunately I'd bet they could attract just as many "wreck divers" by sinking a couple of junk fishing boats. If the main intent was to create an artificial reef to support life, a few old concrete or steel sewer pipes and other cement rubble would work just as well.