Curious

[pyat]

The German navy was scuttled in Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, in 1919. To this day, dive salvagers visit the wreck to retrieve steel for use in Geiger Counters and other radiation sensitive devices. This steel has not been contaminated by nuclear arms testing, and allows for more sensitive instruments.

I just think that's sort of cool.

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[dagoski.livejournal.com]

There's something like this off Catalina Island in California. The US Navy scuttled a whole mess of aircraft there after World War II. I think they got rid of a lot of obsolete Wildcats and Avengers that way. Never did understand why they weren't scrapped. Anyway, used to be that the dive shops would do tours of the wrecks. You had to be a pretty advanced diver, though. The wrecks were deep. I dunno how they've held up. There was probably a lot of souvenir hunting.