Exploring the wreckage of the USS Macon, which went down off the California coast 80 years ago. Lickliter-Mundon wants to use the 3D photomosaic to learn more about how the Macon sank. A...

Aug 4, 2005 · The USS Macon, the nation’s largest rigid airship, was doomed. He ordered the vessel to be turned away from the sharp marine terraces of Big Sur and out to sea, towards the rescue ships that were closing in on his distress signals.

Sep 7, 2006 · The 785-foot USS Macon, a U.S. Navy “dirigible,” and its four Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk aircraft were lost on February 12, 1935 during severe weather offshore of Point Sur, California, on a routine flight from the Channel Islands to its home base at Moffett Field.

The surveys recorded the visual wreckage USS Macon through high-definition videotape and still imagery that will be used to create a photo-mosaic of the two debris fields. Distinguishable features included the airship’s hangar bay containing four Sparrowhawk biplanes and their detached landing gear.

Aug 19, 2015 · Explorations in 1991 and 2006 photographed and identified the bulkiest items on the ocean floor – engines, fuel tanks, ovens, tires, and the four biplanes still relatively intact, among others – and even retrieved some items for study and display.

Join us as we go with the team of the E/V Nautilus as they explore the underwater crash site of the USS Macon, a rigid airship that crashed off the California coast on February 12, 1935. The Macon operated as a flying aircraft carrier deploying Curtiss F9C-2 …

One of the buildings on top of the rock contains an interpretive display about the USS Macon, an airship that crashed into the ocean off the point in 1935, witnessed by the lighthouse keepers at the time.

Macon was struck by a sudden squall which tore off its top tail fin, damaging several of the helium bladders pro-viding lift, and eventually leading to it hitting the ocean and sinking in around 400 m of water off the Big Sur coast of California. Eighty-one of the eighty-three crew-men aboard survived the accident [1]. After sinking, the

In 2015 a joint OET/NOAA/Navy survey mapped the Macon using 2D photomosaic, microbathymetry, and 3D modeling techniques. These new visual products will inform and engage public and academic interest in a as well as enhance interpretive ability of the site.

Sep 7, 2006 · The 785-foot USS Macon, a U.S. Navy “dirigible,” and its four Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk aircraft were lost on February 12, 1935 during severe weather offshore of Point Sur, Calif. on a routine flight from the Channel Islands to its home base at Moffett Field.