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[StartQuote] Thanks to all on the Forum for making this possible! Without you it obviously wouldn't have happened and I tried to make that clear in the short time I had to talk. It was a really amazing detective story by real experts and historians on the Forum. When I reconned the site in 2017 and leaned down out of the johnny boat and cut off tiny pieces for wood testing, I put an oar down and probed around. I felt sand/mud. I felt the occasional rock. And I felt what was clearly wood. As the tide rose I traced the wood around and it corresponded roughly to the size of large remnants of the hull area. Bingo! It was amazing to see the huge MTA's recovery-clearance operation last year. Fun facts -- the site is a few hundred yards from, and plainly visible from, the main north/south commuter train lines from Manhattan on the other side of the river -- the Hudson line, Harlem line and New Haven line tracks. Also the Major Deegan expressway. It was buried in plain sight. Also, in the 1960s living in Stuyvesant Town, my dad parked the family station wagon in a lot under the FDR drive a few dozen yards from the SEA QUEEN V berth at 23rd street pier. We should have chartered it! Thank you all again. William Doyle[EndQuote]
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