Comments on: A Lost Submarine

By: Okie

Okie — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:24:33 +0000

USS Batfish, in Muskogee, Oklahoma.. full sub… I have walked through it many times, its in a war memorial park, the guns have been takin off the deck and displayed at the main office on site.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:18:22 +0000

I think in Holbrook you actually have to slow to 40km/h for a school zone.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:14:43 +0000

Speaking of ships that aren’t where they oughta be (near water), there’s Placemark: this / Google Earth.

Sure, from here it doesn’t look like a ship. But it is. Lockheed Martin uses this building to test its Aegis system, and from the ground it looks like there’s a giant battleship comin’ right atcha! You can see it plainly as you drive along the interstate (not to mention the myriad backroads), but as you can tell from the map it’s in the middle of a freakin’ cornfield!

This is what is looks like at ground level.

By: Jel

Jel — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:39:01 +0000

I must be blind, I don’t see that sub anywhere, unless it’s inside the building?
On the other hand, the Swiss have one here, which is for all it’s alongside water, it’s a very long way from anything calling for deep diving – Lake Lucern only joins the oceans after several hundred miles of Rhine navigation, and there’s a very solid weir in town which rather puts the stop to that plan!

By: Michi Disperso

Michi Disperso — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:27:21 +0000

la Citè de la science…
i love that place…

i love every place in Paris..

By: montreuillois (93)

montreuillois (93) — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:26:06 +0000

(excuse my english, i’m a french frog that didn’t read H. Potter in english)
If you want another submarine, please look at :
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

On your right, that’s called the “Argonaute”, a submarine-museum-submarine in Paris.

Just on the left, this is not a cristal ball reflecting the sky… this is the “Geode”, a panoramic movie theatre.

Thanks !

By: dr.R.

dr.R. — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:15:46 +0000

I’m more surprised they have traffic lights here at all – at least I couldn’t figure out in the image where that would be

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:53:34 +0000

The traffic lights thing is true, again, thanks to a recent bypass of Albury – if you count Sydney as “the edge of Sydney” and Melbourne similarly. Holbrook is pretty much the last town of any size you pass through left without a bypass.

The submarine isn’t a submarine at all – it’s made of fiberglass and concrete. It’s a replica. I’ve climbed up on top of it myself. There is a propeller from a real submarine nearby (the white patch southwest of the replica), but as far as I could tell there was no real submarine in the big one, unless they made submarines very differently 30 years ago

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:59 +0000

The traffic lights fact is not correct (and actually hasn’t been for a very long time ie 10-20 years)
There are hundreds of lights between sydney and melbourne now

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:58:09 +0000

Haha, this reminds me of the outline of the USS South Dakota in Sioux Falls, SD (another deeply landlocked location):

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Instead of just the top half, they salvaged a couple of guns, the anchor, a propellor, and a few other chunks.