Dumb Question

[BrisJoe]

Just curious, does the US government pay a reward for discovrring a lost ww2 ship/sub upon dicovery?

As I believe i have discovered the location of a lost sub that was rumored to have been sunk by friendly fire.
I'll be able to did a side scan sonor of it in the coming months once i can buy a boat suitabke to go to the location.

The only problem is its aprox 100km offshore meaning its past the continental shelf and in about 4km of water, making it twice as deep as the titanic.
Does anybody have James Cameron's email? LOL as he has a dub that can go to that depth.

 

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[allen_idaho]

I don't believe they do offer any type of reward. At least, I've never heard of one. But I could be wrong.

You'd probably have better luck contacting National Geographic or some other outlet and see if they have any interest.

 

[BrisJoe]

Wouldn't I have to positivly identify the wreck before calling Nat Geo to try and get a story/funding for a deep water sub?

 

[jeff of pa]

Wouldn't I have to positivly identify the wreck before calling Nat Geo to try and get a story/funding for a deep water sub?

Most likely you would at the very least you would need to prove to them it isn't already
known. If you proposed you found the titanic they would file your proposal under
trash bin

Just curious, does the US government pay a reward for discovrring a lost ww2 ship/sub upon dicovery?

first off you'd have to give them the Coordinates ,
or look like your trying to scam them.

& once you have given them the info, they won't need you.

they can say, "oh ! we knew that was there "

 

[Salvor6]

Hey Joe, I think that sub has been found already. I remember reading an article about a US sub that was sunk by friendly fire off Australia in WWII. A survey vessel found it and verified the identity as the USS Seawolf SS-197.

 

[BrisJoe]

No the Seawolf was sunk in Indoneasia, the one I'm after was sunk by a Australian Beaufort bomber on sub patrol as it waas coming into Moreton bay to it's dock in Brisbane. Although "official" records put it further out towards the Admiralty Islands, but 10days later there are radio records of it notifying Aust Naval command in Brisbane that it was approaching the Moreton Bay enterance and thus not to be fired upon and to make sure the wired seamines were deactivated.
But it seems the message was not passed to the Air Force running it's sub patrols as there was known Japanese subs in the area as they had in the days prior fired G-A gunfire at the sub patrol aircraft, and 4 weeks later the Jap sub I-177 sunk the Hospital ship The AHS Centaur at the enterance to Moreton Bay, which was only rediscovered in 2009.

The sub i am after is the USS Triton, but after further research, i also have the high possibility that the 1 I have located could be the USS Grampus which was lost the next day after departing Brisbane.

So things are progressing further with the more research I do goes. I have a close friend who works in naval records and is looking for any information he can find for me and such.