i'll pass.  they've been covered in seamen for far too long.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Erika Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123543023154353525.html
>
> PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy
> has a pair it doesn't need anymore. It has been trying to give them away
> since 2006, and they're headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn't speak
> up soon.
>
> One is called Sea Shadow. It's big, black and looks like a cross between a
> Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open
> sea. The other is known as the Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) Mining Barge. It
> looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is
> 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which
> keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.
>
> The barge, by the way, is the only fully submersible dry dock ever built,
> making it very handy -- as it was 35 years ago -- for trying to raise a
> sunken nuclear-armed Soviet submarine....
>
> click to read more
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123543023154353525.html
>
> 

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