Chinese vessel detained for illegal salvaging of wargraves

[BrettMRC]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysi...

Spotted this a few days ago, glad after years of this going on action has finally been taken.

Quite surprised that they were braxenly unloading the secondary battery, ammunition & hull plating at the quayside!

[spikep]

Apparently, as the ships were sunk in the pre-atomic age before the first nuclear bomb tests, the water protected the metal and is therefore free of radiation. I think this makes it valuable for certain types of instruments.

[marksx]

spikep said:

Apparently, as the ships were sunk in the pre-atomic age before the first nuclear bomb tests, the water protected the metal and is therefore free of radiation. I think this makes it valuable for certain types of instruments.

Pre nuclear era steel is quite rare apparently.

[IJWS15]

I think there is still a bit at the bottom of Scapa Flow

[Chris Type R]

Maybe they could sort out the SS Richard Montgomery. It's easy to find I believe.

[Simpo Two]

Chris Type R said:

Maybe they could sort out the SS Richard Montgomery. It's easy to find I believe.

Hit it in the right place and it will automatically deliver the parts to 2,000 addresses

[hidetheelephants]

spikep said:

Apparently, as the ships were sunk in the pre-atomic age before the first nuclear bomb tests, the water protected the metal and is therefore free of radiation. I think this makes it valuable for certain types of instruments.

Not quite; it's the fact the steel was smelted prior to the first atmospheric nuclear test, so anything prior to mid-1945. Steel made after has progressively more radioactive clag mixed in up to the atmospheric test ban in 1963, after which the amount has steadily fallen and is now very low indeed. More likely these goons are just opportunist scrap merchants like the argentinians who decided to 'invade' South Georgia.

[sherman]

IJWS15 said:

I think there is still a bit at the bottom of Scapa Flow

The UK have salvaged some of that in the past for certain uses. You dont need much though. Iirc it was a few hull plates or such like.

They cleared alot of the german fleet up over the years. Theres only a few ships poking out at low tide now.

[jamieduff1981]

sherman said:

The UK have salvaged some of that in the past for certain uses. You dont need much though. Iirc it was a few hull plates or such like.

They cleared alot of the german fleet up over the years. Theres only a few ships poking out at low tide now.

There are still four German High Seas Fleet battleships on the bottom, albeit missing their boilers which were cut out of the hulls. Just about everything else was salvaged between the wars or just after WWII. There are also two British battleship wrecks (HMS Vanguard and HMS Royal Oak) on the seabed there but they are protected by the Royal Navy. The wrecks which can be seen above the water are block ships sunk to block some of the channels into the Flow.

[sherman]

jamieduff1981 said:

sherman said:

The UK have salvaged some of that in the past for certain uses. You dont need much though. Iirc it was a few hull plates or such like.

They cleared alot of the german fleet up over the years. Theres only a few ships poking out at low tide now.

There are still four German High Seas Fleet battleships on the bottom, albeit missing their boilers which were cut out of the hulls. Just about everything else was salvaged between the wars or just after WWII. There are also two British battleship wrecks (HMS Vanguard and HMS Royal Oak) on the seabed there but they are protected by the Royal Navy. The wrecks which can be seen above the water are block ships sunk to block some of the channels into the Flow.

Still quite alot down there from both Wars.
https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/wre...