Hi Urgh, yep, I saw those Dental Chairs in person and it was an eerie site when we got to go into the bowels of the ship. I remember that some of the spaces we saw, which if I recall, they were the secondary blast hulls of the ship, that it just gave you an eerie feeling to be there.

I never got the chance to go on the bridge though, and we were not allowed to take photo's-or I would have probably taken several rolls of film when going there. As for the Gold on board, they had four armed Port of Corpus Christi Policemen standing next to the covered "mound" on the floor. What's funny was that that reminded me of that scene in Kellys Heroes where they first get to that bank and see all the boxes covered in tarp lying on the floor.

You would have been amazed to see the piles of wiring that they had stashed everywhere. They also seperated the metals by having copper in one area, tin in another bronze in another, brass etc etc.

I saw the video when they sank this ship and agree, it was amazing. I have always had an interest in getting into Diving but, never got around to it. If I ever do, the USS Oriskeny is going to be one site i'll go to.

I forgot to mention that I was lucky to be one of those who got to collect some artifacts from the ship, identify them, classify them and log them into the Museums collection. Some of the stuff would look like junk to the average person but, to us, it was a gold mine.

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