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Viet Cong Attack ...

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After this sinking, the US Navy and the Vietnamese Army provided scuba divers to periodically check all of the anchor chains for mines. Some more attempts were made by the Viet Cong, but to my knowledge, this was the only major vessel sunk. It was loaded with cement ... so it might STILL be there.


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Gary Dillard 05-Sep-2019 01:23
6 Sep-2019
Gary Dillard . I posted previously on 18 Jan 2014. Just came across the photo again. It was good to see again
an old friend and reminder of past exploits . I'm still living in old Saigon and enjoying it . This also brings back
memories of another ship wreck in Vietnam : It was a Greek freighter that was holed and beach off Windy Beach
( Bai Gio ) at the Vung Tau beach point , back in the mid-late 60's.
Gart Dillard 18-Jan-2014 13:27
I and 2 of my ex- SF buddies dived ( scuba ) on the Eastern Mariner , shortly ( few weeks )
after she was beached just down from Saigon near Nhe Be . We salvaged the old radio
direction finder , radar and some of the charts from the top side. We had to make
dives to retrieve some of the other items of interest that we were loading into a 18 ft
Boston Whaler, as we accidentally dropped it off of the starboard side into about 25 ft
of zero visibility river water. The above photo brings back distant memories of our
exploits there in the SF and later as civilian contractors. If you have an interest I can
be contacted : gdillard@hotmail.sg ----- thanks for the photo viewing. I am currently
living in Saigon.
Guest 02-Nov-2011 18:40
The Eastern Mariner was dismantled and removed sometime in 1966 0r early 67 as I recall.
Milan Vogrin10-Apr-2011 06:41
Nice photo.
John Cooper10-Dec-2010 23:48
Very good Soenda, most people look at this and stop at "Shipwreck".
Of course I see more than that.
Soenda08-Aug-2007 16:24
This image has a similar effect on me as some of the things I saw while photographing my father's house after last summer's fire. Obviously, it is the aftermath of a terrible event (of course this much graver than a single family's house, and represented a threat of further injury for decades after). But despite the loss and suffering, you see it and you can't look away. There is a strange beauty to the way the ship's demise, the way the sea is slowly reclaiming the man-made object, that rivets your attention. And on top of that, the exquisite tropical palette, the benign, cloud-filled sky and strange angle of the ship in the water, make a photo with almost peverse appeal. Fatal beauty.
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