At 1 pm he called his wife to tell her the tower was gyrating. I… They refused. The tower was the site of an accident and was destroyed by a winter storm on January 15, 1961. Both called the story “fascinating.”Mason said he was “amazed that such a venture was taken back then to protect from an attack.” Petkus said that she felt better choices could have changed the crew’s fate.“The decisions that were made were horrible,” she said. My father was the lead diver in the rescue attempt. The first two towers, off of Nantucket and Boston, were driven into a rocky ocean bottom in relatively shallow water ( 50 and 80 foot depths. ) Tower 4 rose 67 feet above the ocean surface on 12.5-foot-wide steel legs anchored in water 180 feet deep. Dan Berg of Aqua Explorers. Depth: 110 ft.
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He said no, it would go down fast and no one would survive.At 2 pm came another loud bang and cracks appeared above the water. The Air Force decided that the crew would be evacuated from the tower at 3 a.m. on Jan. 16, when it looked like the storm would break. I will never forget the sacrifice of the Brave 28. By comparison, Texas Tower 4’s legs only reached 15 feet into the sand and had walls less than an inch thick, Zimmaro said.A few months prior to the nor’easter that sank the tower, Hurricane Donna tested — and severely damaged — the tower when it crossed directly over the tower in August 1960. BEACH HAVEN — Imagine a wall of water more than 100 feet high slamming into the three-legged U.S. Air Force radar tower where you’re stationed 85 miles into the sea.The tale of the ill-fated Texas Tower 4 off the coast of New Jersey, which toppled in a nor’easter on Jan. 15, 1961 and cost 28 men their lives, has “all the elements of a great disaster at sea story,” diver Chuck Zimmaro said during a packed house presentation titled “Doomed Tower at Sea” on May 8 at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History.“It’s a wreck that some have said rivals the Titanic,” Zimmaro said of the site which he described as a “huge underwater metal mountain.”The Texas Towers, so named because they resembled oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, housed radar equipment in three rubber domes and extended the United States’ monitoring abilities almost 150 miles into the ocean, critical in case of a Soviet attack from the north or east.“It provided at least 45 minutes to one hour’s warning time,” Zimmaro said. By then Texas Tower No. TT #4, however, was more of a challenge. They didn’t want to The storm had such ferocity that January morning that the The men on Texas Tower No. TT #4, however, was more of a challenge. The tale of the ill-fated Texas Tower 4 off the coast of New Jersey, which toppled in a nor’easter on Jan. 15, 1961 and cost 28 men their lives, has “all the elements of a great disaster at sea story,” diver Chuck Zimmaro said during a packed house presentation titled “Doomed Tower at Sea” on May 8 at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History. Texas Tower No.4 was a triangular shaped Air Force Radar Tower, or D.E.W. Troy Williams.Copyright © 2014 - 2020 New England Historical Society 4, collapsed during a fierce winter storm in January 1961." The tale of the ill-fated Texas Tower 4 off the coast of New Jersey, which toppled in a nor’easter on Jan. 15, 1961 and cost 28 men their lives, has “all the elements of a great disaster at sea story,” diver Chuck Zimmaro said during a packed house presentation titled “Doomed Tower at Sea” on May 8 at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History. I remember that day as an Aerographer's Mate serving aboard the Wasp. The tower … The air force had three such stations -named for their resemblance to oil drilling rigs. Texas Tower 4 suffered severe structural damage during Today the wreckage of TT-4 remains at the bottom of the ocean, and has become a site for scuba diving. She asked if it would float if it collapsed. 4 was built in Portland, Maine, and plagued by problems from the start. As a ship hauled it out to sea in 1957 it encountered a storm that tore off two legs.