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RADIOACTIVE WWII aircraft carrier FOUND OFF CALIFORNIA

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Re: That's it...

lots of ships were sunk after WWII, many of them with far more dangerous cargoes than this. Some with thousands of tonnes of bombs / shells. Some laden with poison gas. For most of them the exact location is unknown.

The problem is once you're out of sight of land, navigation - and location - is very much an art, not a science. No satnavs. No Decca / Loran. No navigational aids whatsoever, just time, distance, compass and dead reckoning. Thats fine when you're on the open sea, trying to avoid running into something: you just err on the side of caution. But trying to know exactly where you are to the nearest half mile, or mile, or five miles........thats hard. And going back later to find it again? Even harder.

Theres the added complication in that where possible these "death" ships were sunk in the nearest available deep, but as someone said earlier, ships don't simply go straight down. They drift.......after all they drift on the surface with the current and wind, why shouldn't they drift as they sink? The final resting place could be miles from the point of sinking

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