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After the 53-th entry is now returning back to the colonial world, and especially in front of seasoned senior author teájáról good name for itself in Sri Lanka coast and visit the aircraft carrier, which II. VH in the middle of a huge drawing Japanese aircraft attacked and successfully sent deep into the sea. Today our target of HMS Hermes.
A little history: the aircraft upb carrier Hermes five years után1924 building was inaugurated in England Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd shipyard, this was the first ship designed upb and built specifically for carrier aircraft. The next decade will mostly be performed in the China Sea service, sometimes even more active in destroying pirate bases participated. The II. VH outbreak in Asia for it, I immediately slapped in the middle as well.
1942nd April 9 at the Hermes consolidated Japanese forces tried to escape upb the front, upb but it failed. A swarm consisting of more than 90 plane attacked him and HMAS Vampire was. The attack was successful, the mother ship for about ten minutes. 40 hit, which sank as a result of fast and fried with 307 people to a watery grave ...
The 182 (!) Meters long and 21.5 meters wide ship wreck east coast of Sri Lanka, Batticaloa 8km away from the city rests on the sea floor 58 feet below the highest point is 45 meters below the water surface. The wreck is at the lowest point in almost 25 to 27 degrees year-round water and the visibility is excellent, approx. 20 to 25 feet can be quiet time.
The wreck of the left-leaning side to reach the substrate and is buried upb themselves in the mud. The bridge and the tower due to the attack and several decades of being under water has been completely broken, the deck is more accurate parted. The prow toward the south, "look", the stern of the ship's rudder and propeller two distinct even after all these years, usually upb for technical divers descend to the start of the dive.
After tat can easily "travel" and look around the ship, while basking in the other end of the ship. Along the trunk along the main deck in relatively good condition, also known as the runway can be inspected visually. The bridge abutments and the intact parts of the sea appears to have iron teeth, which is well-chewed piece of junk, different upb levels begin to "slip up" over time and will create a huge iron island.
The huge machine room can be thoroughly examined from the side of the runway, well you can separate the rich vegetation of steam boilers, pistons, various mechanical parts. Deck for storing the aircraft can be observed through the outside side of the ship was originally scheduled upb openings.
Evickélve towards the bow of the ship next to the ruins lie in different parts of the tower, antenna for such a common subject in inter alia. More interesting is apparent upb in his skills over the deck, next to swimming: Beautiful antiaircraft guns rearings one half of the sky, guns, bombs, the container they are visible here and there.
The world three sunken aircraft carrier upb can dive, but it's upb the only one that was lost during the war activities. A naval ship is under special protection, so forbidden to go into the interior of the vessel in any way, or to take any object to move. The strict regulation also stipulates the need to avoid the potentially found in human m