Long shot

[icechip]

Wondering if anybody in the Oregon diving community knew about the research vessel Hero which was located at Newport, OR from 2000-2003. The story goes that the ship fouled both bow anchors to submarine cables on the bottom of Yaquina Bay some time during those years and cut them loose un-buoyed. Not clear if they are still there. They were big 814-lb Baldt anchors. Was wondering if they were ever recovered?

 

[tursiops]

According to this, they have been salvaged:

"The two 814-lb. anchors that were recently transported back east from the salvage of the National Science Foundation Research Vessel Hero"

ADDED: see also https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...88d075d2/1674658868686/22-23_January_No.2.pdf pages 3-5.

 

[icechip]

Those two which were transported back to Maine might not be the originals, the ones lost in Yaquina Bay, this is according to one of HERO's earlier owners. Just checking to see if any Oregon divers helped find the ones fouled in the submarine cables.

 

[g2]

Interesting.

I suggest you send an email to Bill Spindler, the unofficial USAP historian. He might know.

Bill is super friendly. He runs the R/V Hero web site but I couldn't find anything there about the anchors. By the look of it, the salvaged ones are the originals. If not, I might be interested in helping with a search and recovery.