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Jason D. Tiller
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Username: jtiller
Post Number: 4561
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 12:26 am: | 
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From Bloomberg.com:
Titanic of the East: Divers Explore Wreck of U.S. Luxury Liner
quote: It isn't every day that someone hands you an unexploded World War II shell 100 feet (30 meters) underwater from one of the world's great luxury liners. Then again, the wreck of the SS President Coolidge is no ordinary dive.
The former luxury liner-turned-troop carrier sank in shallow, tropical waters during the war after hitting an American mine, thereby embarrassing the U.S. government and providing recreational divers with one of the most spectacular and accessible wrecks in the world off the coast of Vanuatu.
For the rest go to, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1GpnzlLofqc&refer=muse
"To be happy is to be contented in your own mind"...Harold Godfrey Lowe
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 18207
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 6:55 am: |
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Anyone going down there had better be careful when mucking around with ammunition. The explosive fillers in those things don't need a lot of incentive to go off!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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