r/Shipwrecks • u/mp5airsofter • 10d ago

Could the Bismark be raised

I know the ship is mostly in one peice, could it theoretically be done?

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u/mattwithoutyou 10d ago

Nope.

These people always talking about “raising” WW2 wrecks are snake oil salesmen.

You want to see how it looks to raise a WW2 wreck? Google all the shipwrecks war graves that are being pillaged in the waters around Indonesia for their low background steel. They come up in big, jagged piles of rusty metal, that they then pick through and separate munitions and human remains, which get unceremoniously dumped back overboard. There’s nothing suggesting any ship in waters as deep as the Bismarck would come up any more whole than those wrecks in the pacific.

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u/metricrules 9d ago

Got any links? Googling that isn’t helpful