Sunken cars

[JTalmage]

Saw this googling something completely different.... and stumbled across it. Neat pics, even though there's absolutely no backstory of how they got there.

 

http://veryinterestingautomotive.blogspot.com/2013/02/wrecked-cars-turned-into-coral-reefs-30.html

[espo]

Thank you for sharing. Some of the trucks look as if they may be on the deck or in the hold of a ship. From the age I would think of a sunken WWII Liberty ship. I remember seeing articles years ago where old buses had been placed around Reefs for fish.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

There's still a lot of equipment and ships on the bottom in the vicinity of WWII Pacific island battles. Judging from the diver's equipment, I'd think this was fairly shallow and warmish water, which would be consistent with that. 

[PowerPlant]

Even though it has caused some controversy and debate, this is fairly common practice around the world... Oftentimes decomissioned ships, busses, trains and even military equipment such as tanks and other armored vehicles are intentionally submerged in order to form artificial reefs (after thorough decontamination of course) for various purposes...

More  here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_reef

 

Edited March 4, 2016 by PowerPlant

[bismarck]

There's still a lot of equipment and ships on the bottom in the vicinity of WWII Pacific island battles. Judging from the diver's equipment, I'd think this was fairly shallow and warmish water, which would be consistent with that. 

That particular pic was taken in Truk lagoon in the Pacific. Yep. Parts of that dive are only 50-75 feet deep. Some of the wrecks are deeper. It was a large Japanese forward naval base, and One of our carrier task forces went in and blew the living daylights out of anything that moved. Some of those wrecks still have live ordinance on board. Its easy to tell how deep a pic is taken by the colors visible on the dive equipment. Anything below 50 feet or so, and reds and yellows become more gray when viewed in natural light, which at that depth, starts to dim.

Edited March 4, 2016 by bismarck

[disabled modeler]

Now that is cool..!  

[cobraman]

Could make for a cool and unusual diorama if one could pull it off.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Could make for a cool and unusual diorama if one could pull it off.

Build it in a fish tank. 

[bismarck]

I saw a guy do just that with a model of the Bismarck. He'd stir up the sediment on the bottom of the tank and let the water get cloudy, and snap pictures of it with a blue light behind the tank. It looked pretty cool!!!