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Hi All, just a reminder that our next presentation is this Friday December
13th at 6:30 PM. You must RSVP if you are coming as space is limited. We can
not accept people at the door who have not called or emailed ahead. Cost is
still the same free.
Thanks John - www.northeastscubasupply.com
TEXAS TOWER 4 Presentation Outline
and Diving Bibliography for N.E.S.S. Presentation on 12-13-02
6:30PM
by Chuck Zimmaro
In July of last year, Chuck Zimmaro, along with famed Hollywood underwater
cinematographer Al Giddings; (James Cameron's Titanic, The Abyss, The Deep, 2
James Bond movies, numerous National Geographic specials and scores of other
films), traveled to the wreck of the Texas Tower 4, located nearly 80 miles
offshore. Al had heard of the Tower and it's tragic fate and wanted to see
for himself this once huge US Air Force radar station.
Giddings would film the underwater wreck site as part of an upcoming 90
minute cable channel Special Presentation on the Texas Tower. Chuck has been
diving the Tower for over 27 years and was asked by Al to act as his guide on
the wreck. Also on board the dive vessel were two sons of men who were lost
on the Tower when it collapsed on January 15th, 1961. It was the first time
they have been to the site since it's collapse 40 years earlier and it proved
to be a very emotional voyage for them.
If you attend this presentation you're in for a treat. Prior to the Giddings
video, Chuck will show a short 8-minute video featuring home movie footage of
the Tower during a storm that was filmed by one of the crewmen who later died
on the Tower! This short video will also show you the Tower from a NOAA
research submersible and take you on a dive into the Tower wreckage, as it
appeared prior to it's further collapse during the winter of 1999/2000, and
the placing of a memorial plaque on it in July of 1999.
Chuck will then show the finished cable channel video in its entirety (68
minutes without the commercials). You will get to see the show before it
airs on TV! After which he will be happy to answer some of your questions.
If you've never dove the Tower before this is a perfect opportunity to see
the site as few have seen it before. If you have been lucky enough to dive
it this will give you an entirely new perspective on one of the most unique
wrecks off our coast.
It's a story born in the Cold War. A story of an engineering marvel and the
struggle for survival during horrific north Atlantic storms. It's the story
of the attempts to rescue those men onboard and the tragic loss of life
during a military mission to protect our shores
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Chuck Zimmaro started diving in 1966. He has spent over 30 years diving the
shipwrecks off of New York, New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina coasts.
He was designated mission specialist for submersible operations on two NOAA
funded submersible expeditions to the wreck of Texas Tower #4. His articles,
drawings and photographs have appeared in various diving magazines and books
both in the United States and in Italy.
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