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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:10 am    Post subject: Thing in shipwreck ? Reply with quote

This may have been posted before.

Interesting Shocked


http://www.divebali.fr/dive-sites/tulamben/
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a restoration job for Ron & Dennis Wink
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not the first time we did a salt water car.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonder if it's an Indonesian built Type 181...
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:05 am    Post subject: Video link of Nemo Thing Reply with quote

Here is a link to a video of the sunken Thing. Wink

Looks like a 1974 right hand drive. See any usable parts ?

I guess its a ritual for divers to get pictures taken sitting in the drivers seat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahu07hHMmfw
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very cool....

And I agree, the Domecks would resurrect that Thing like nothing... Wink
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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I call dibs on drivers side fender :)


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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

looks like it went down with the ship...
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow that has less rust than mine.
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2015 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun May 31, 2015 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This interested me since I am a long time diver myself. I'm not so sure it went down with the ship though. I did a little research and can't find a clear answer as to when the ship went down....depends who you want to believe on the net. The first thing I read said the ship went down in 1963. The next article said 1942, "USAT Liberty was a United States Army cargo ship torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-166 in January 1942 and beached on the island of Bali. She had been built as a Design 1037 ship for the United States Shipping Board in World War I and had served in the United States Navy in that war as animal transport USS Liberty (ID-3461). She was also notable as the first ship constructed at Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, New Jersey. In 1963 a volcanic eruption moved the ship off the beach, and Liberty‍ '​s wreck is now a popular dive site."
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