Congratulations Bob

[Das Boot]

I haven’t seen the video yet, because I’m not a member of the DiveTribe, but I understand the USS Texas has risen from the grave. As much interest as I’ve shown in this, I thought I would’ve seen it by now. But you gotta pay to play.

[Das Boot]

It just dawned on me, why couldn’t you put an Apple AirTag in your submarines? They’re not big, they don’t weigh a lot, it might work.

[Subculture]

The signal from an AirTag will not penetrate through water. A self contained rf beacon at a lower frequency (sub1ghz) would work though.

[Das Boot]

The signal from an AirTag will not penetrate through water. A self contained rf beacon at a lower frequency (sub1ghz) would work though.

Well, you learn something every day, I thought anything made from Apple was from God.

[Albacore 569]

Relived and happy. Been following quietly. The videos were informative if we ever experience the same., sharing your vulnerability and sadness is so tough. We all culd see it in the videos after another No joy days search. But finally triumph in the end.

Your family is fantastic with your lovely supportive wife and great son executive officer helping all through this ordeal. I am sure as a good skipper you are evaluating all that happened and rethinking the designs. that's all I'll say and like for look forward what you will share and teach us Bob.

Question. You marked in your map where you saw the sub last and its course heading. Where was it eventually located?

Our Local Sub Committee Chapter (Mare Island) chapter has a local diver 'on call' if the worst occurs, He offers his services for free. The experience gained his compensation. He is our local version of the US Navy's Deep Submergence Unit (DSU)specialized component for undersea rescue and recovery operations.

Thank you.

[Subculture]

Well, you learn something every day, I thought anything made from Apple was from God.

In fairness they're called airtags not underwatertags.

[Albacore 569]

Same looks on faces but Squalus had a outstanding war record later on

[RCSubGuy]

Full recovery video and this week's update drops tomorrow. Like I tried to tell Casey, delaying dropping the video isn't due to any malicious intent on my part. It's just time. It takes about 2 hours to edit a video, and with my full time work and time needed actually.. you know... building stuff, video editing waits for Saturday AM.

This week's video has been fun. You guys should like it!

[Das Boot]

Full recovery video and this week's update drops tomorrow. Like I tried to tell Casey, delaying dropping the video isn't due to any malicious intent on my part. It's just time. It takes about 2 hours to edit a video, and with my full time work and time needed actually.. you know... building stuff, video editing waits for Saturday AM.

This week's video has been fun. You guys should like it!

No Bob, we all know it’s a conspiracy. Those little men in that submarine were offloaded before it sank. It was a complete fraud designed to steal the missiles inside the boat, before recovery. I smell a bunch of AI coming up. We all know what’s going on. Anyway yeah you’re correct, does take a long time to edit. I just thought you’d slap together a video and throw it up here. I forgot about your perfectionist nature.

[NicholasRadzykewycz]

For those of you wondering the find location, It was precisely at the spot marked Sonar Contact on the dive permit I put together. This is the latest version of the dive permit after the successful recovery of the battleship hull and audio beacon failsafe box the week prior. It is my suspicion the blip on the sonar that Bob mentioned at the end of the last search video was in fact the boat, but the sonar probably has a pretty narrow search angle and we learned from the diver that the boat was partially sunk into the mud so not very much of it was above the mud sticking up into the weeds.

[Thorbrandr]

Congrats!

Having lost the Marlin and having to give up the search for another day (it was found later), there are some emotions.

[wlambing]

Did it stink when you opened it up? My 637 had the stench of Hades about it after 6 weeks in a pond in RI. Took several scrubbings to get that controlled. Cylinder was bone dry! Loss was caused by loss of propulsion. An ear broke off the dog-bone and the shaft came out. No speed, no boat! She was heavy due to very warm water. On a shelf since 2009. Glad you got it back!!!

[Ken_NJ]

When my Marlin was lost for 8 months, the paint bubbled as well. And the surface on the bottom did not. There was a mud line which is where the paint did not bubble.

You can see the bubbles here under the slime.



Cleaned off, hard to see in the picture but they are there.



The partly stained mud line was a bit more difficult to cleanup, but it did clean.



Plenty of bubbles everywhere. The thought was to sand it away and repaint. Never did that. But due to the cleaning it now has a glossier sheen to the surface, the flat sheen is no longer.



Bubbles also on the sail.



Another oddity, the bubbles did not appear on the tail cone which is a separate piece attached to the main hull.

[Albacore 569]

Fascinating question about the surface bubbles. What could the cause be?

1. Chemicals in the water?
2. Bacteria in the water in th paint or plastic and creating a gas that then allows water to flil the bubbles?
3. ABS plastic used in the skip Asay kit reacting t moisture?
4. Primer paint reacting to water?
5. Model paints?
6. Am I asking the proper questions? Lol

The USS Texas was a printed hull (resin), the Marln is ABS plastic correct? The different in plastics doesn't seem to change bubble production, both seem to have same bubbles. And both hulls bubbled only on the upper surfaces. Does these plastics have micro bubbles or pours that trap air and usually 'breathe' but can't underwater over a long period??

[Das Boot]

Ken, it completely slipped my mind about when you lost the Marlin. How did you ever find it? If it’s in a post here, I’d like to read it again. *Disregard, Ken I found the post.