Friday 10 June 2011

I Always Wondered What Had Happened To My Free Ship,

the one the American government was giving away for free, the US Navy has been trying to give away the £110 million Sea Shadow since 2006 after Pentagon chiefs said they no longer had any use for it I mentioned it on the blog in February 2009, well I think I have just seen it, in Suisun Bay, 30 miles north east of San Francisco, in it there are a number of mothballed ships, which once numbered close to 400 they have been out of action for some time, 15 of the ships have already been scrapped and the whole fleet is expected to have disappeared by 2017, squatting photographers led by Scott Haefner, gained access to the ships over a two year period and began taking pictures of the doomed ships like this one, of the USS Iowa, also many more of the interiors of the ship over the two year period, the intrepid explorers took months to prepare their voyages - analysing tidal patterns and security rotas - but despite many close calls managed to spend many days at a time on board, 'as news began to mount that the ships would finally be towed out for scrapping, we knew we had to act fast if we wanted to explore and document them,' Haefner said, and guess what they found placed inside one of the vessels moored there? yes I believe the Sea Shadow, sadly the state of the art craft will be scrapped, but I guess there is still time for a museum to ask for it as an exhibit, or a wealthy individual could use it for a sneaky trip ashore from his floating palace for a secret assignation away from her indoors, who knows?

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