Showing how clear the water was that day, I barely had to touch up this photo from 98 feet under...
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The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread
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Bob Segar's Old Time Rock n' Roll starts to play....
Going for some style points with Mr. Porcupinefish here (I just liked the way it looked with the wreck in the background.):
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Tree kangaroo.
Is that a sunken ship behind it?Going for some style points with Mr. Porcupinefish here (I just liked the way it looked with the wreck in the background.):
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Dangit that’s coolGoing for some style points with Mr. Porcupinefish here (I just liked the way it looked with the wreck in the background.):
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Going for some style points with Mr. Porcupinefish here (I just liked the way it looked with the wreck in the background.):
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Do you know what the wreck is? It kinda looks like a sub, with the "sail' like feature. But, it could the upper be super-structure.
Your being In Hawaii I always think about Pearl Harbor.
I am a history nut.
The wreck’s name is the Sea Tiger. She was sunk intentionally just over 20 years ago (1999). I’ll code the history in Spoiler text to keep the post short.
In short, she was sunk as a dive site, in approximately 120 feet of water (which puts the top of the pilot house at about 70 feet). Lots of good swim-throughs, so it’s used for wreck dive training, etc. One of my favorite spots.
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On February, 1992 it was know as the Yun Fong Seong No. 303 when it was carrying 93 illegal Chinese immigrants. The Harbor master was trying to hail the ship but there was no answer, just the vessel barreling into the pier. There was one harbor police officer to handle the 90 + illegal aliens. They did not resist.
The five crew members severed various prison terms in what immigration officials called Hawaii's largest seizure of illegal immigrates. The Justice Department seized the Yun Fong Seong No. 303 and sold it at auction in the first of several ownerships.
One guy bought it at auction for $1, took one look at it and then abandoned it. No one ever saw him again. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society bought the ship for $40,000 in 1992 and planned to use it to harass and ram fishing vessels that lay drift nets. The Yun Fong Seong No. 303 was to be renamed UN Resolution 42/216, after the United Nation resolution that bans drift nets. The society's plan fell through and the Yun Fong Seong No. 303 ended up with a Vietnamese fisherman who renamed it the Sea Tiger.
He sold it in 1994 to a man who frustrated environmental and Coast Guard inspectors because the Sea Tiger kept leaking oil and fuel into Honolulu Harbor. With all the problems it lay still at Pier 40. The state was planning to tow the Sea Tiger 12 miles out to sea and drop it.
This was until Voyager Submarines bought it for $1. It took Voyager two years of paperwork and $250,000 in cleanup and preparation costs to get all the approvals from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, health department, U.S. Coast Guard, and the Army Corp of Engineers. They spent $100,000 getting rid of the last 100 gallons of fuel and oil.
The five crew members severed various prison terms in what immigration officials called Hawaii's largest seizure of illegal immigrates. The Justice Department seized the Yun Fong Seong No. 303 and sold it at auction in the first of several ownerships.
One guy bought it at auction for $1, took one look at it and then abandoned it. No one ever saw him again. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society bought the ship for $40,000 in 1992 and planned to use it to harass and ram fishing vessels that lay drift nets. The Yun Fong Seong No. 303 was to be renamed UN Resolution 42/216, after the United Nation resolution that bans drift nets. The society's plan fell through and the Yun Fong Seong No. 303 ended up with a Vietnamese fisherman who renamed it the Sea Tiger.
He sold it in 1994 to a man who frustrated environmental and Coast Guard inspectors because the Sea Tiger kept leaking oil and fuel into Honolulu Harbor. With all the problems it lay still at Pier 40. The state was planning to tow the Sea Tiger 12 miles out to sea and drop it.
This was until Voyager Submarines bought it for $1. It took Voyager two years of paperwork and $250,000 in cleanup and preparation costs to get all the approvals from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, health department, U.S. Coast Guard, and the Army Corp of Engineers. They spent $100,000 getting rid of the last 100 gallons of fuel and oil.
In short, she was sunk as a dive site, in approximately 120 feet of water (which puts the top of the pilot house at about 70 feet). Lots of good swim-throughs, so it’s used for wreck dive training, etc. One of my favorite spots.
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One of my best, and now late
friends of mine and I were leaving Ft. Lauderdale on the day when they sank a ship to help create an artificial reef off the coast about 40 years ago and we saw her blow up and go down. I have always wondered how it worked out.
^ Interesting... any chance you might recall the ship’s name? (And sorry about your friend, my condolences, of course.)
Another shot from the Sea Tiger, just chilling out:
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Another shot from the Sea Tiger, just chilling out:
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To the best of my recollection it was this one.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-03-25-8501110598-story.html
Thank you, we were buds from kindergarten thru high-school and beyond.
I was intending to go on that golf trip to Myrtle Beach with him and others in his plane but I could not go, three out of the four that went "bought it" just short of the local runway. I lucked out, by not being able to go.
An Argentine Tegu
Female Boxfish:
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How Do Animals Find Their Way Home (Without GPS)?
Ever wonder how some lost pets find their way home, or how butterflies know where they're going when they migrate? We have the answers!
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A couple of Ornate Butterflyfish friends...
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"Rawr"
"Rawr"
Which came first, the Rawr or the egg? An everlasting conundrum.