[SMCARA] sunk subs

[John Johnson]

Between Point Patience and the TJ bridge in the Patuxent River is the 
deepest spot in the whole Chesapeake Bay (reported as 164 feet). In that 
hole an old S class submarine from the 1920s or 30s was sunk to be the 
laboratory for the Navy Salvage Diver's School during WWII. It was cut and 
welded and pieces were raised and sunk again numerous times. Recreational 
divers don't usually go that deep; too much dwell time on the way back up.

The sub in the Potomac off Piney Point is the WWII stealth skinned German 
Panther. After intense study and evaluation, it was used as a target and 
first sunk in the Chesapeake Bay off Point Nopoint. It was later raised, 
towed, and resunk in its present Potomac River location; now a recreation 
diving site.

John J, WA3ZGD
jajohnson at erols.com
c 301 904 4693


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Graessle" <stewfoot at verizon.net>
To: <smcara at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SMCARA] USNS APACHE


> Jim-
> Thanks!
> Much more helpful than the MSC PAO desk.
>
> I knew that there was a submarine there and another in the Potomac.  I 
> heard
> the State Underwater Archeologist (yes, Maryland has one) speak a few 
> years
> back.  She talked about the two submarines.  The one on the Potomac is war
> salvage from WWII.  The one off NRC Solomons dates from when the diving 
> and
> salvage school used to be here.  That was the hulk the students would dive
> on.
>
> For some reason I had thought the hulk was on the other side of the spit.
>
> What goes around, comes around.  And we are still a test center!
>
> THX!
> Grant
>