At 7pm this evening TVO (TVOntario) is playing The Ship Sinkers.I have seen similarly-themed documentaries about decommisioned naval vessels sunk as artificial reefs and as diving wrecks.
A few years ago a decommissioned Canadian destroyer -- the name of which suddenly escaped me* -- was sunk as a sport diving wreck in a short documentary that I saw. Before the deed was done, the ship was cleaned of all oils and toxic substances, painted in a nice bright blue, and detailed with crudely painted signs such as "this way out" done in a bright red.
The filmmakers (or the company that arranges these controlled sinkings) put video cameras in various parts of the ship, to be retrieved later. One such nice view cut into the documentary was from a camera mounted inside the ship's bridge, pointing out through the main windows. What we saw as a hole or two was punched in the ship was the horizon tilt slightly, water rush in, then under...
(Photo above: The old U.S. Navy "flat-top" U.S.S. Oriskany is sunk as an artificial reef. It would have been fun, I think, to have stood on the tip of the bow as the ship went under. Hi Izabella!)
(* HMCS Nipigon. I checked later.)
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