Posted by Deitan Dumais on November 03, 1999 at 03:51:20:
In Reply to: Re: Sunken German U-BOAT in Lake Michigan posted by bob on March 07, 1999 at 05:28:01:
: : Bob, Just a note about being 'reluctant' to divulge locations. You have to realize that to find stuff like this you have to: 1. sell your house. 2. Use the money to buy a sidescan. 3. Quite your job. 3. use your inheritance and any other money you have to buy a boat, computers, positioning gear, etc.etc.etc.4. Say goodbye to your family. 5. Spend years getting good at using the above .... and then when you're lonely and destitute with nothing more than a few numbers on a piece of paper to your name, have some doink walk up to you and ask you for those numbers. The last hardware and software upgrade for that sonar was $80.k. They searched 170 square miles for that target -and a lot of that twice. KHP
: keith,
: i posed no judgement as to the reason for nondisclosure. i to have
: spent many dollars and hours looking for wrecks, i believe that asking
: about any new wreck would fall into the 'nothing ventured nothing gained'
: catagory. i have dove more than my share of large rock piles in the lakes
Dear Keith
I was not aware that U-boat went so deep into the country
I had to check my map to acertain where Lake Michigan
was. Did you IDed her so far and if so how deep is she?
I would really like to know. After all, I,m just a writer
that happen to be writing a U-BOAT story.