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Submarines (1/2)

USS Blenny reef — World War II - *USS Blenny* SS-324 - 312 ft, 1,810 tons, 8 knots submerged

Everyone knows what a submarine is - a ship that can go underwater. Hardly needs any explanation. Unless you're in the US Navy. By the Navy definition, only their modern, nuclear-powered boats ( all submarines are called "boats" ) are true submarines, designed to operate beneath the surface almost indefinitely. Anything else is merely a "submersible", tied to the surface by the need for fuel and air. Whatever.

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Black Sunday

The U-151 was the first German U-boat to operate in U.S. territory in World War I. The U-151 is not actually sunk in these waters ( it was sunk deep off Virginia after the war, ) but it did "contribute" the following six shipwrecks, all on the same day, Sunday, June 2, 1918:

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U-550

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1942, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday April 16, 1944
by depth charges and gunfire from destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson after torpedoing tanker Pan Pennsylvania - 44 casualties.
Depth:: 300 ft

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U-853

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1943, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday May 6, 1945
sunk by destroyer escort USS Atherton - no survivors
Depth:: 110-130 ft

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U-869

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Built:: 1944, Germany
Sunk:: February 11, 1945
sunk by destroyer escort USS Howard D. Crow - no survivors
Depth:: 240 ft

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USS Bass V-2 / SS-64

Shipwreck USS Bass — This photo is signed by Admiral Chester W Nimitz.

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1924, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
Specs:: ( 341 x 28 ft ) 2000 displacement tons, no crew
Sunk:: Monday March 12, 1945
deliberate - weapons test
Depth:: 155 ft - sand ; 140 ft - deck ; 120 ft - conning tower

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USS Blenny SS-324

Shipwreck USS Blenny — The *Blenny* as she appeared during World War II.

Type:: shipwreck, Balao ( modified Gato ) class submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1944, Groton, CT USA
Specs:: ( 312 x 27 ft ) 1810 tons, no crew
Sunk:: Wednesday June 7, 1989
artificial reef
Depth:: 70 ft

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USS G-1 / SS-19

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1911, Newport News, VA USA
Specs:: ( 161 x 13 ft ) 400 tons, no crew
Sunk:: Tuesday June 21, 1921
deliberate - weapons test

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USS G-2 / SS-27

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1912, Bridgeport, CT USA
Specs:: ( 161 x 13 ft ) 400 tons, no crew
Sunk:: Wednesday July 30, 1919
foundered after weapons tests - 3 casualties (inspection crew)
Depth:: 81 ft

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USS L-8 SS-48

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1917, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
Specs:: ( 167 x 15 ft ) no crew
Sunk:: Wednesday May 26, 1926
deliberate - torpedo test
Depth:: 110 ft

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USS S-5 SS-110

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1920, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
Specs:: ( 231 x 21 ft ) 876 displacement tons, 37 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday September 1, 1920
flooded during test dive - no casualties
Depth:: 165 ft

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September 30, 2022

A Nice Upgrade

September 30, 2022

I did some php programming in my custom WordPress theme, and gave it a new ability. Now on each page I can embed related pages, which previously only appeared as links in the sidebar ( and still do. ) While it is possible to embed anywhere, the sensible place is at the end, after all the content. Embedding a page in the middle of another page would probably be confusing. Actually, when a page is embedded, only the beginning of it is displayed, with a link to the whole thing. Then I got an even better idea, and added the page's 'parent' to the list. I also made some formatting changes so that each embedded page is clearly a separate entity.

What is really cool about this for this website is that now every dive site's page now includes the relevant charts. This is something I always had in the back of my mind, but I never thought of an easy way to do it across hundreds of pages, until now. Once the code was finished, it took just a single change in the WordPress setup to make it happen.

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