Airplane Junkyard Part IV (Pt Loma — 210 fsw)

Airplane Junkyard Part IV (Pt Loma — 210 fsw)

Background For quite a while now, we have been finding and documenting various "dumped" WW II airplanes off of Point Loma, California. They are Corsairs, TBM/F Avengers, and SBD Dauntless aircraft. The original post back in Sept 2021 and then the follow-on post (Part II and III) in Aug 2022 identified over a dozen of [...]

SBD-3 Dauntless (Revisited) — 80 Years Later

SBD-3 Dauntless (Revisited) — 80 Years Later

Intro Calendars and dates are a human construction. We have given meaning and importance to specific dates and sometimes circumstances collide in interesting ways. This is a story that starts on August 24, 1943 -- 80 years ago today -- and involves an interesting connection recently made. Tyler and I have had a longstanding project [...]

USS Saratoga (CV-3) “The Wall” Photogrammetry Model

USS Saratoga (CV-3) “The Wall” Photogrammetry Model

This will be a short, but very useful post for anybody who is planning to dive the interior of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) in Bikini Atoll. I was recently on a dive trip to Bikini Atoll with The Dirty Dozen Expedition group and spent a lot of time working on three different photogrammetry projects. The [...]