Re: [HOE] I think I might have created a monster

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

>Anyway, I still have a question. In my game (the one that I actually run),
>one of the PCs wants to raise the CSS Kidd and give it to the people of Red
>Stick. I'd appreciate it if anyone with naval/underwater welding expertise
>or just a reasonable guessimate, could tell me what this would involve. I'm
>thinking he has to find a crane, get to the River with it, pump all of the
>water and silt out of the destroyer, patch the multitude of holes just to
>get it floating. In addition, 13 years at the bottom of the Mississippi
>means the wiring would be shot in most cases. Somebody let me know what you
>think.


Either thakt, or take the Donald Duck approach & somehow fill with thousands
of small floating particles (like ping pong balls) & have the displacement
raise it.  Of course, you'd have to fill in the holes first.  Oh, & I'm not
being silly here; folks have actually raised a couple of tankers this way,
but the engineer couldn't patent the idea because he got it from a Donald
Duck comic book.....


Jeff S