oriskany in pns

I dropped some pics in the wreck section, of the USS Lexington. They show spatial reference, and size.
Andrew

No problem....

When its down and I get out there, I'm going to lay some line in the hanger deck. Hopefully people won't screw with it - of coruse I know better, they probably will.

I'll give it an attempt or two, and if what I lay remains reasonably unmolested then I'll keep extending it as appropriate. If people start ripping it up or screwing with it, then I'll just run a primary and pick it up on the way out from that point onward.

"Permanent" lines would be good to have, I think, in that boat. Its definitely going to be big enough inside to get you in plenty of trouble.

If the layout is anything like the Lex then I would run a line into the interior hanger and then tie in at the “hatch.” That way you have the hatch to use as an entry/start point. Then a permanent line could be started at the bottom of the stairs and that would be out of site from the average bear that might swim by when the team leaves.

Access points for C&C, Machinery, and different sites were deck hatches on the interior deck hanger. These seemed the shortest routes to certain sites. So the lift elevators are removed these could be good entry points.

I did include a picture of wiring conduits. These things are everywhere, bottom of the stairs, running down corridors, overhead, against walls. Are they removing them?

I have been running searches on the internet for the deck plans and nothing is showing up on any carriers. Does anyone know if they are going to release any type of deck plans?

Andrew

No idea - there are rumors they intend to weld hatches closed, but another rumor is that they're only going to "safe" things above the flight deck.

I would hope that they would not attempt to close off all interior access. Not only is that futile but it would actually make the wreck more dangerous.

The hanger entrance should be somewhere around 130-140, which is out of range of most of the "noobs", so I'm not TOO concerned about people "finding" it who really ought not be there... :)

Well we shall see what it ends up doing when it hits the bottom. Nobody knows untill it is there. Only speculations as of now. And lets hope they don't have a demolition crue like the Speigel Grove. Lets just wait and see what happens.

A carrier is very different hydrodynamically than something like the Grove.

My understanding is that the sinking plan is to blow the sea chest walls near the keel. This will flood the hull more or less evenly from the bottom up; the ship has a strong "V" shape, being a flattop, so it should sink more or less upright.

The problem with the Grove was that it sank EARLY. They've learned from this mistake, I suspect... :)