Y’all are in the presence of a movie star

Hammer12b

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This was our latest show to be featured on The Weather Channel. We’ve had a film crew following us around to wreck sites that we’ve raised for about 2 years now. At our next get together I’ll be sig autographs for the low, low price of only $20. 😝
 
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What a badass job.

I bet there are times when you really don't feel like getting in that water!
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There are. A LOT of that was typical “reality TV” like can you say that again, a you drop the boat back down and let us film from another angle, can you fake a dram event? On a real wreck, the answer is no. This one was set up just for them and a lot was, I won’t say staged but managed. Most of what we do is dangerous and we’re not about to redo something. If you want a shot, you’d better get it the first time. We’ve done some wrecks that would make your hair stand on end. Black, zero vis water, fuel and oil leaking out, deep, cold and that in its makes it dangerous.
 
Hammer12b said:
This was our latest show to be featured on The Weather Channel. We’ve had a film crew following us around to wreck sites that we’ve raised for about 2 years now. At our next get together I’ll be sig autographs for the low, low price of only $20. 😝
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No thanks.

I'll just screen shot some scenes and make memes out of them.

I'm cheap that way.
 
My earlier ribbing aside, it was a cool watch. (Not wartch. Watch)

Towards the end, once the hull was raised & being towed away, Tim Stafford said it was now the owner's to "do with as he wanted." But the narrator said something to the effect that, with a little cleanup, it could be upfitted to sail again.

Really? Ok; fiberglass is pretty rot-resistant and relatively easy to patch. But I've heard (2nd hand, I have little experience with real boats) that there are ... critters/bacteria/space spores that attack fiberglass and essentially rot it out.

Granted, narrator may have been narrating out of his scuttle hole... but is it feasible to repair or recondition a hull that'd been submerged for 2 years?

Inquiring minds wanna know.
 
Windini said:
My earlier ribbing aside, it was a cool watch. (Not wartch. Watch)

Towards the end, once the hull was raised & being towed away, Tim Stafford said it was now the owner's to "do with as he wanted." But the narrator said something to the effect that, with a little cleanup, it could be upfitted to sail again.

Really? Ok; fiberglass is pretty rot-resistant and relatively easy to patch. But I've heard (2nd hand, I have little experience with real boats) that there are ... critters/bacteria/space spores that attack fiberglass and essentially rot it out.

Granted, narrator may have been narrating out of his scuttle hole... but is it feasible to repair or recondition a hull that'd been submerged for 2 years?

Inquiring minds wanna know.
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Narrators gotta narrate.
 
Windini said:
My earlier ribbing aside, it was a cool watch. (Not wartch. Watch)

Towards the end, once the hull was raised & being towed away, Tim Stafford said it was now the owner's to "do with as he wanted." But the narrator said something to the effect that, with a little cleanup, it could be upfitted to sail again.

Really? Ok; fiberglass is pretty rot-resistant and relatively easy to patch. But I've heard (2nd hand, I have little experience with real boats) that there are ... critters/bacteria/space spores that attack fiberglass and essentially rot it out.

Granted, narrator may have been narrating out of his scuttle hole... but is it feasible to repair or recondition a hull that'd been submerged for 2 years?

Inquiring minds wanna know.
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It was resunk and turned into a diving location and a training boat. We do salvage classes twice a year and we use it to train new salvage divers to raise boats. And no, it's beyond repair.
 
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I'm working topside during the first and last of this. I get in the water to guide the bow out from under the dock. I'm the first diver you see suiting up out of the green Jeep.
 
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