lvsquarerigger wrote:
I took the photo, cropped and resized it to fit here on this forum, and overexposed it to see what is hiding in the darker areas. It seems the degaussing cables are a lot higher than what I have modeled and it does seem as if one of them does go up.
I think we need to be a bit cautious about reading too much into the present positions of the DG cables. Remember that these were wrapped around the hull and fastened to the outside. Yorktown's cables were broken loose by a near-miss bomb, so consider what happened to Lex's cables when the hull ripped into sections. Note that the after 5" gun photos show the cables from that part of the hull draped across the guns themselves. Also note that in the photo labeled "torpedo hole", where part of the side is bent upward, the cable in that area is draped across the bent section and drifts across the blister aft of the hit and then off toward the ocean floor. Looking closely at that shot, you can see where it had been attached along the hull before it was violently ripped off.
Jon C Ryckert wrote:
Still trying to figure that pic of the sponson out. Asked Petrel if they had any more pictures of this area and forward of it and they said they would try to check when they got some free time. I think what I am seeing is the starboard sponson because it appears to match the drawing from HNSA plans and those in Steve Wipers book. Do you thik it is possible that that section of cable came loose from the hull from one of the underwater explosions and that is were it landed when the bow section hit the seabed? I've been wrong before though.
I have my suspicions about the shape of the sponson, but unfortunately, the video didn't pan downward to show it. They need to check for shots lower down where it fairs into the hull as well as moving forward.