Bowtie22
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Has anyone on here ever visited the S-49 submarine wreck in the Patuxent river, Maryland? I was wanting some details on your dive.
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S-49 (SS-160) WW1 submarine
The navy divers set up on it on a regular basis and do saturation dives.
Thanks for the reference. I dive the S-16 in Key West, also sunk as a sonar target. They don't have much on her on this site, I can send them some nice underwater shots...The US S class submarines were built after WW1, between 1920 and 1925. Because they were being made obsolete by the new fleet boats just before WW2, they were sent to the asiatic fleet to end their days. When WW2 started they were immediately on the front lines and served with distinction during the war, until replaced by our newer submarines.
The S 49 was sold as scrap in 1931 due to a Naval treaty on warships, and was acquired an ran as a tourist attraction at 25 cents a ticket, including as an exhibit at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936. The Navy reacquired it in 1941, and it foundered while being towed.
PigBoats.COM - S Class Submarines
Will give a longer history of the S 49 as well a all the boats in the class.
Bob
I think you mean surface supplied dives. The water is way to shallow to justify saturation diving. Fortunately they have a sat system of their own again after a decades long dry spell. See the U.S. Navy Saturation Diving article on Page 5 of the November 2012 Faceplate Magazine.
I don't know what kind of diving they were doing, but I have a few old photos, one dated 1974 of divers...