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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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Edited 5 mo ago
Amazing finding those items after 2,000 years and them still being intact, what a great connection with history ! Sometimes things in water do get preserved al although Fresh water and area near us in Millville, Massachusetts an old wooden canal barge that sunk in the 1800s was raised and mostly intact. This was a barge pulled up the Blackstone River Canal by Mule teams that travel a path on short to pull the barge by a rope. about 95% of the old locks on the canal are also mostly intact. This canal come up from Providence, RI and ends in Worcester, MA. A trip up the length of canal took 2 days and went through 45 locks., It was going to be connected with the Erie canal but the railroad made the canals obsolete and ended it's use. Much of the canal is the Blackstone Valley National Heritage park.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
5 mo
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney Like you I'm not certain, but I do know that the WWII liberty ship docked behind where I worked had to use extra zinc to control rust because of the warm water.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
5 mo
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen -
Correction To My Previous Comment:
The Cold Water Does Assist; But A Low Sea Depths,
~ The Water Contain Less Oxygen, ~
~ THAT's What Reduces The Deterioration, Lack Of Oxygen~
YUP, Funny Stuff ~~ "Lack Of Oxygen" That Just Kills Me L0L
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
5 mo
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen -
CORONAL?... Paint With High Contents Of Zinc Is What's Used
To Cover The Hulls Of Large Ships. ~ ~ So I KNOW You're Correct.~
But It Also Serves To Reduce The Volume Of Barnacles,
By Repelling Their Attachment To The Hulls
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
5 mo
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney Way over my pay grade and experience. All I know is they used to hang bars of zink over the side about 20' apart all around the ship.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Love it. I had visions of finding things like that when diving around Turkey and Greece. Of course all I ever found was rusted beer cans :-))
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
5 mo
YES Coronal, I Also Heard That You'd Been TOLD Numerous Times:
"Stop Tossing Those Beer Cans Into Our Sea Waters, They're Worth
10 Cents Each When You Cash Them In, And You Can Keep The Cash.
And Beside Coronal,You're Scaring The Sh*t Out Of The Fish" .....
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
5 mo
A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney Hey, the critters in those warm waters scared the Sh*t out of me. Lots of sea snakes and other things that can ruin your day.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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Edited 5 mo ago
You'd Think These Wars Would Have Been A Good Way
To Separate The Men From The Boys.. But It Didn't Work Very Well,
Instead, They Had To Use Crow-Bars.

https://youtu.be/v5q1rerf-qw
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