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Well the salvage firm that was looking for this U-boat got a new (1971) Swiftship, 90' dive boat, "Son Worshipper."
http://www.yachtworld.com/adventureyach ... _unit=feet
Reportedly the asking price was $3M. This means that the yearly cost for keeping this thing will be $300K to $600K. With the price of fuel being what it is, the boat will probably be staying in Florida or Haiti most of the time.
Sub Sea Research Expands Shipwreck Search, Recovery Capabilities
06/25/2007
http://www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtStorie ... 1011492090
Sub Sea Research LLC, a privately held shipwreck research and recovery company, purchased M/V Son Worshipper -- a 96-ft. swift ship completely set up for diving operations and capable of conducting archaeological excavation and recovery work on the company's shipwreck projects. The ship is equipped with duel high pressure dive compressors as well as being able to house up to 28 divers and guests.
"This vessel will put our dive teams on site for an extended period of time and speed up operations immensely," said Greg Brooks, Co-Manager of the company. "The ship has room for a full spectrum of professionals such as videographers, archaeologists, as well as the press".
"Over the past several years our researchers have amassed a database of roughly 150,000 shipwrecks worldwide. We believe we have the most comprehensive list of shipwrecks in the world today," said Brooks. "With this list in hand, and combined with the advanced technology available to us today, we are aiming for a few "special targets" and are about to start preliminary operations on them."
The url http://www.subsearesearch.com/news.htm shows their recently purchased 90' or 96' Swiftship dive boat.
At the top of this page and on the right side, when you click onto the Our Links, particularly New!! Stories.you are brought to
here you have the story (Story #1) of the phantom U-boat off of Cape Cod. It is still in Sub Sea's website but now it's hard to find.
If you check out Story #3 also in this URL apparently they are now after the treasure on the ship Deliverance. I guess their promise of $2-3B in treasure is a more interesting than some olde rusted WWII U-boat. Apparently the Deliverance is somewhere between Haiti and Florida.
“It was one of the richest ships ever lost,†says Greg Brooks, 51, the co-manager of Portland, Maine-based Sub Sea Research Inc., which is conducting the search and proposed salvage effort. He estimates the value of the Deliverance’s trove could be between $2 billion and $3 billion.
Sub Sea Research recently followed its findings with a quiet trip to federal court in West Palm Beach to stake a claim under admiralty law. In October, Sub Sea won an order from Senior U.S. District Judge James C. Paine allowing the company to “arrest†the shipwreck and protect itself from modern-day pirates. The wreck is located “substantially†inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary but outside Florida territorial waters, according to court records.
The law considers wreck sites “submerged cultural resources.†Those found in the sanctuary — a federal trusteeship co-administered by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the state of Florida — are strictly regulated. A permit is required to conduct a detailed survey and inventory of a wreck site. Additional permits are needed to recover and get title to the treasure.
Brooks says the law should now protect the company from other possible claimants if the wreck is indeed the Deliverance. The state has no claim, says Brooks, because the wreck is beyond the three-mile limit. Spain has asserted admiralty claims to lost warships in U.S. courts, but the Deliverance was privately owned.
http://www.yachtworld.com/adventureyach ... _unit=feet
Reportedly the asking price was $3M. This means that the yearly cost for keeping this thing will be $300K to $600K. With the price of fuel being what it is, the boat will probably be staying in Florida or Haiti most of the time.
Sub Sea Research Expands Shipwreck Search, Recovery Capabilities
06/25/2007
http://www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtStorie ... 1011492090
Sub Sea Research LLC, a privately held shipwreck research and recovery company, purchased M/V Son Worshipper -- a 96-ft. swift ship completely set up for diving operations and capable of conducting archaeological excavation and recovery work on the company's shipwreck projects. The ship is equipped with duel high pressure dive compressors as well as being able to house up to 28 divers and guests.
"This vessel will put our dive teams on site for an extended period of time and speed up operations immensely," said Greg Brooks, Co-Manager of the company. "The ship has room for a full spectrum of professionals such as videographers, archaeologists, as well as the press".
"Over the past several years our researchers have amassed a database of roughly 150,000 shipwrecks worldwide. We believe we have the most comprehensive list of shipwrecks in the world today," said Brooks. "With this list in hand, and combined with the advanced technology available to us today, we are aiming for a few "special targets" and are about to start preliminary operations on them."
The url http://www.subsearesearch.com/news.htm shows their recently purchased 90' or 96' Swiftship dive boat.
At the top of this page and on the right side, when you click onto the Our Links, particularly New!! Stories.you are brought to
here you have the story (Story #1) of the phantom U-boat off of Cape Cod. It is still in Sub Sea's website but now it's hard to find.
If you check out Story #3 also in this URL apparently they are now after the treasure on the ship Deliverance. I guess their promise of $2-3B in treasure is a more interesting than some olde rusted WWII U-boat. Apparently the Deliverance is somewhere between Haiti and Florida.
“It was one of the richest ships ever lost,†says Greg Brooks, 51, the co-manager of Portland, Maine-based Sub Sea Research Inc., which is conducting the search and proposed salvage effort. He estimates the value of the Deliverance’s trove could be between $2 billion and $3 billion.
Sub Sea Research recently followed its findings with a quiet trip to federal court in West Palm Beach to stake a claim under admiralty law. In October, Sub Sea won an order from Senior U.S. District Judge James C. Paine allowing the company to “arrest†the shipwreck and protect itself from modern-day pirates. The wreck is located “substantially†inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary but outside Florida territorial waters, according to court records.
The law considers wreck sites “submerged cultural resources.†Those found in the sanctuary — a federal trusteeship co-administered by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the state of Florida — are strictly regulated. A permit is required to conduct a detailed survey and inventory of a wreck site. Additional permits are needed to recover and get title to the treasure.
Brooks says the law should now protect the company from other possible claimants if the wreck is indeed the Deliverance. The state has no claim, says Brooks, because the wreck is beyond the three-mile limit. Spain has asserted admiralty claims to lost warships in U.S. courts, but the Deliverance was privately owned.
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