sunken treasures: aircraft 20,000 leagues under the sea

There’s something inexpressibly eerie about these 60- some-odd photographs of WWII-era planes and ships lying in their watery graves. Truly, the ocean depths are as close as we can get to an extraplanetary experience; this is not our world. We are slow, clumsy intruders blundering our bubbly way from one unspeakably ghostly site to the next, the silent life which teems all around us more alien than any of which fiction has conceived. We do indeed live on a placid isle of ignorance, and it is not meant that we should voyage far.

Sunken Sponges

Sunken Plane

Sunken Ship Stairway

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7 thoughts on “sunken treasures: aircraft 20,000 leagues under the sea

  1. nursemyra says:

    wonderful eerie images

  2. Metro says:

    Extremely cool find.

    But I beg to differ on the ocean. It is our second home. First, in fact.

    Aren’t you the one who adopts the persona of a squid?

  3. raincoaster says:

    To understand the enemy, you must BECOME the enemy.

  4. Metro says:

    You’re crazed. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  5. raincoaster says:

    Of course you flatter them; to get their guard down!

  6. LOTGK says:

    Just a little while ago they showed some photos of the lost squadron that went searching for the lost plane in the Bermuda triangle. Very eerie pics, very cool photography. Thanks for posting these.

  7. raincoaster says:

    Oooh, I’d like to see that. I can’t remember if I got around to it or not, but I want to do a post on the Glacier Girl. Have you seen that? Check out Damninteresting.com for their post; such an interesting site!

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