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Years ago, I made a number of dives on the Eugen, and had several dives where leaking fuel was observed to be a problem.


How the U.S. is Recovering Oil from a 1946 Warship

Prinz Eugen, once the pride of the German Navy, is sitting upside down in the Pacific and threatening to leak
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EugenOil.jpg


By Kyle Mizokami
Sep 18, 2018

The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship…………
 
good luck getting deck plans
 
Years ago, I made a number of dives on the Eugen, and had several dives where leaking fuel was observed to be a problem.


How the U.S. is Recovering Oil from a 1946 Warship

Prinz Eugen, once the pride of the German Navy, is sitting upside down in the Pacific and threatening to leakView attachment 480898 View attachment 480898

By Kyle Mizokami
Sep 18, 2018

The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship…………
But the US sunk it and there was not even a war on!
 
Years ago, I made a number of dives on the Eugen, and had several dives where leaking fuel was observed to be a problem.


How the U.S. is Recovering Oil from a 1946 Warship

Prinz Eugen, once the pride of the German Navy, is sitting upside down in the Pacific and threatening to leakView attachment 480898 View attachment 480898

By Kyle Mizokami
Sep 18, 2018

The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship…………

Just an update. See the link for the complete article.

U.S. Navy Divers Recover Oil from Wrecked WWII Prinz Eugen

By Lt. Clyde Shavers, CTF73/DESRON 7 Public Affairs | | Oct. 14, 2018

U.S. Navy Divers Recover Oil from Wrecked WWII Prinz Eugen > Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet > Display

ENUBUJ ISLAND, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (NNS) – U.S. Navy divers from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52) completed removal of fuel oil from the capsized World War II German cruiser, Prinz Eugen, at Enubuj Island in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Oct. 15.

In collaboration with the government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll (USAG-KA), the safe extraction of an estimated 250,000 gallons of fuel oil from Prinz Eugen began Sept. 1 and involved nearly two dozen divers along with support from commercial tanker Humber for transport of the removed fuel oil.

“There are no longer active leaks with 95 percent of the potential oil volume having been removed. Any remaining oil is enclosed in a few internal tanks without leakage and are well protected with multiple barriers of ship construction,” said Lt. Cmdr. Tim Emge, officer-in-charge of salvage operations. “Of the 173 total oil tanks, the 159 external tanks have been pumped of all appreciable amount of oil or were found empty........
 
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