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Friday, 15th July 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is the hulking, rusted remains of some sort of large ship off the coast of South Africa… a few hundred miles up the coast from here is the famous skeleton coast, home to countless shipwrecks.
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Here’s another one. In the Gironde river near Bordeaux, France. View Placemark / Google Earth
In fact, I think I’m wrong. The last post just look like a rusty Shipwreck. But the waves (trails) are on the opposite direction of the river’s stream.
Hmm, whatever it is, it certainly looks like it’s seen better days
Here’s another, in Lake Michigan no less, off the coast of South Manitou Island, an island within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan.
View Placemark / Google Earth
here’s another
View Placemark / Google Earth
I was just looking for Skeleton Coast yesterday, but couldn’t find it, can anyone point me to it? Even if it’s only low-res, I’d like to know where it is…
The Skeleton Coast is the coast of northern Namibia… basically if you got shipwrecked here, even if you survived the wreck, you were out of luck as there’s nothing but desert for hundreds of miles.
This is the general area: View Placemark / Google Earth
Pretty desolate.
Gus, that looks interesting
ouh no! my boats! Why are you doing this!
Gus definitely wins the award for coolest shipwreck so far.
The coast of South Africa has higher resolution imagery available than my home in the United States!
Someone posted that on the Keyhole BBS, I just relayed the link.
This ship was filled with varoius chemicals. There was a fire onboard for about a week. the fire people who went to put it out nearly died about 3 times and their boots melted cos of the heat. in the end , they removed all chemicals and blew it up. Just north of the wrek is a nature reserve with crocodiles and hippos. Iv lived near there (cape town)
The wreck in the picture is that of the Pantelis A. Lemos which came to grief in March 1978. She had no cargo onboard, she was in ballast. The fire was caused by a generator which overheated. She was not blown up.
There is a nature reserve, but there are no Crocodiles or Hippo’s !
Was wondering if it is possible by means of Google earth to find a wreck, lets say in about 60m of water?