Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in the Philip

Baz · Baz's Garage

Found in 18,000 feet of water!

https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss-indianapolis-wreckage-found

stevej37 · 08-19-2017, 06:07 PM

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

Thanks for posting this, fascinating.

Joe Bob · Joe Bob's Garage

Read the story or watch the movie. It was quite the cover up and shameful how they treated the captain and surviving crew...

Joeaksa · 08-20-2017, 11:03 AM

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Read the story or watch the movie. It was quite the cover up and shameful how they treated the captain and surviving crew...

And the Captain ended up killing himself as a result. Very, very sad situation and most of it lies or covered up.

Glad its been found... I have a few friends who worked to make this happen and it was a long and hard road until they found the ship.

911_Dude · 08-21-2017, 04:19 AM

I think it's great they found the ship. Not an easy task. But what is the real purpose in looking for it. We know why it went down, it's not a salvage or treasure operation. So why all the effort to find it? Paul Allen just really bored?

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

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Originally Posted by 911_Dude

I think it's great they found the ship. Not an easy task. But what is the real purpose in looking for it. We know why it went down, it's not a salvage or treasure operation. So why all the effort to find it? Paul Allen just really bored?

Never underestimate bored people with money.

Baz · Baz's Garage

The significance of finding the Indianapolis has to do with closure for the families of those who were lost. We're talking about approx. 900 sailors who lost their lives.

That's a lot of families.

911_Dude · 08-21-2017, 07:40 AM

If it helps the families of those that died, great. I don't see how tho. There are no unanswered questions that will now be answered. I just don't see that as the motivator for the people that did the search. But more power to 'em.

sammyg2 · 08-21-2017, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by 911_Dude

I think it's great they found the ship. Not an easy task. But what is the real purpose in looking for it. We know why it went down, it's not a salvage or treasure operation. So why all the effort to find it? Paul Allen just really bored?

Archaeology. Same reasons people dig.
Trying to find historical stuff we can learn from.

pavulon · 08-21-2017, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by 911_Dude

I think it's great they found the ship. Not an easy task. But what is the real purpose in looking for it. We know why it went down, it's not a salvage or treasure operation. So why all the effort to find it? Paul Allen just really bored?

You're not suffering a delusion of people being rational are you?? Besides, if Paul Allen doesn't find it, nobody else is even looking for it.