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

["james wallace" <yelost1@hotmail.com>]

question: i know nothing about off shore salvage, how do you raise the boat, 
without actualy damaging it.  i think the mass would break the ship in half 
if you do it wrong. and from listing to a couple of people the kid has been 
in the water for something like 18 years, so would it not be barried under 
silt. and how do you get a the thing unearthed.


>From: "Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>
>Reply-To: hoe@gamerz.net
>To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
>Subject: Re: [HOE] I think I might have created a monster
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:01:38 -0400
>
> >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
>
>
>
>
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                              SOCKO!!!!!!!
      FROM YOUR PAL JAMES WALLACE


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