Salvage of 460 Gold Bars

[Akimbo]

Here they are here they are here they are!

Are these book in your personal library? If you had to pick just one, which book would you recommend?

 

[happy-diver]

Mr Akimbo the two hardcovers are the same book one is just smaller size smaller print thinner old paper

I would most definitely purchase the jacketed old book first link, and also for a more modern perspective
from a historical diving guy Geoff Maynard find yourself a copy of Niagras' gold from the many available

Salutations to all

 

[Jared0425]

I will have to hunt down a copy of Gold From The Sea. On a similar vain and time frame I recommend Rasing The Queen by Jerry Korn. It's set in the early 1950s.

 

[DeepSeaDan]

still 5 unaccounted for, approx 2.95 million at current spot pricing

I believe those bars made it aboard thru the back door...

 

[lermontov]

That was an extraordinary operation for the time, though not record setting for depth or value of gold salvaged. I wish someone would write a thread on Johnno Johnstone and the RMS Niagara gold salvage for our Diving History forum.

BTW, I think you have a typo. The Niagara sank in 70 fathoms (128m/420'), not 40.

theres a vhs video doc of the salvage - a mate has a copy or you might be able to watch online somewhere

 

[lermontov]

Race to prevent oil spill from shipwreck off Whangārei

Maritime NZ is due to report back about a potential oil salvage to Minister Julie Anne Genter by August.

www.newshub.co.nz

it may not be playable but you can do a search on niagras leaking oil
it may well get more attention in the next few years

 

[DeepSeaDan]

Grappling claw directed by an observer in the diving bell

I did a tin ingot salvage in the Straits of Taiwan in 1985 and we used a peel grab to run into the blown-open hold to pull the ingots to surface, where they were dumped on the deck & hosed down - quite an adventure! You can read the tale here:

"Do you get the feeling were not welcome?!?"

Ask any oilfield diver where he stayed while hanging in Singapore looking for work & he will probably say the "Mitre Hotel." The Mitre was a run down shanty of a lodging house ( its still operating today & may have seen renovations since 85' ) sitting on some very prime real estate in central...

scubaboard.com

 

[happy-diver]

The divers spent their hours in here mate

What are you talking about

 

[happy-diver]

Oil belching hey amazing how the **** we do catches up with us

 

[DeepSeaDan]

The divers spent their hours in here mate

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What are you talking about

Sorry - too much Christmas grog last evening - got my salvage stories mixed up!