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I saw this on Compuserve last night, and thought I'd send it along Don Forwarded message: >From 73112.3650@co*.co* Thu Jun 15 00:51:35 1995 >Date: 14 Jun 95 20:47:17 EDT >From: "Don Spiliotis [MA]" <73112.3650@co*.co*> >To: Don Spiliotis <don@kr*.co*> >Subject: Spikefish >Message-ID: <950615004717_73112.3650_EHJ197-1@Co*.CO*> > >I miss writing for (and reading) Underwater USA, so I thought I would post this >here.... > > > >June 10, 1995, Shinnecock, New York--Atlantic Wreck Divers Jeff Pagano, Pat >Rooney, Brad Sheard and Brian Skerry were the first divers to visit what is >believed to be the USS Spikefish on Capt. Ken Jastrzebski's dive boat, Jean >Marie. Earlier attempts by the group to dive the site over the past four years >had been impeded by bad weather and logistical problems. > >The wreck has been fished for a long time and was known alternately as the >Baldwin or the Spikefish. The Spikefish was the "divingest sub," and holds the >world record for the most dives by a submarine (more than 10,000). There is >little information about whether it was sunk as a target or scuttled, but the >Spikefish sank on August 4, 1964 sixty miles south of Montauk. While no >positive identification has been made, research indicates that this is indeed >the Spikefish. > >The sub sits upright in about 260 feet of water. Althought the wooden decking >is intact in many places, some areas clearly reveal the ship's rounded pressure >hull. The divers anchored in near one of the torpedo loading hatches and >explored about one third of the sub's length. Using mixed gas, the team made a >single dive but plan to return for further exploration. > >copyright 1955 Theano Nikitas > >
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