Google Sightseeing » The Bahamas http://googlesightseeing.com Why bother seeing the world for real? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Underwater Plane http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/18/underwater-plane/ http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/18/underwater-plane/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:10:32 +0000 Alex Turnbull http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/18/underwater-plane/ This is Normans Cay in the Bahamas, and lying submerged just under the surface of the water is a genuine 1980s drug smugglers plane! Here’s a bonus underwater photo of the wreck taken by a guy who snorkled around it.

Ship Wreck

Normans Cay served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder and George Jung’s drug-smuggling operation from 1978 to around 1982, and this Curtiss C-46 Commando was used as part of their operations.

Thanks to aardvark2zz, the gearthblog and Ollie.

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