B17 Flying Fortress in Vis Croatia

aralves

aralves

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We spent a week diving around the island of Vis exploring wrecks and walls. It was the first time I've done a liveaboard in Croatia on the MV Vranjak. I can only recommend this, they have some great wrecks and every night we went to other (port) location so we could enjoy the different villages.

Here is a first video of the trip when we dived on the "B17" at a depth of 72m.

 
aralves said:
We spent a week diving around the island of Vis exploring wrecks and walls. It was the first time I've done a liveaboard in Croatia on the MV Vranjak. I can only recommend this, they have some great wrecks and every night we went to other (port) location so we could enjoy the different villages.

Here is a first video of the trip when we dived on the "B17" at a depth of 72m.

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Thanks for posting, nice footage. And thank you for using symphonic music instead of the generic new age synth stuff so common in dive videos.

I dived on a B17 in Papua New Guinea, still had the nose cone and all the guns. It's amazing they put 10 people in those planes. Always a strange and beautiful sight to see a plane wreck underwater.

It looks like most of the guns were removed, who could've salvaged that in 72m back in the 40's?
 
silent running said:
Thanks for posting, nice footage. And thank you for using symphonic music instead of the generic new age synth stuff so common in dive videos.

I dived on a B17 in Papua New Guinea, still had the nose cone and all the guns. It's amazing they put 10 people in those planes. Always a strange and beautiful sight to see a plane wreck underwater.

It looks like most of the guns were removed, who could've salvaged that in 72m back in the 40's?
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There is more info about this aircraft on following site. http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/p2983...-fortress.html

From the info I have read:
We were told to lighten the plane, so everything went that could be pulled, pried or jerked loose. This meant guns, ammo, flak vests - everything but the radios.
 
silent running said:
Thanks for posting, nice footage. And thank you for using symphonic music instead of the generic new age synth stuff so common in dive videos.

I dived on a B17 in Papua New Guinea, still had the nose cone and all the guns. It's amazing they put 10 people in those planes. Always a strange and beautiful sight to see a plane wreck underwater.

It looks like most of the guns were removed, who could've salvaged that in 72m back in the 40's?
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BTW I use this kind of music on all my videos -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TS9ssbDg-NyBPBDXpROLg
 
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