Love stuff like this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-21/an-expedition-recovers-apollo-engines/4585754
Love to see some more photo’s.
Trés kewl! Those need to go on display outside the Smithsonian.
4,267m is an interesting number.
That is just amazingly cool! Thanks for sharing this with us, Battle Pope!
Yes, it certainly is. I hope it’s a numbers matching engine. Wonder how long before they can confirm.
It’s a conversion of 14,000 ft. The idiot who converted it doesn’t understand significant figures. (I remember our newspaper had a recipe which said to cut meat into 2.54 cm cubes. Really? Accurate to within a tenth of a millimetre? You mean 1" cubes don’t you?!)
http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/updates.html
Jeff Bezos’ blog with more pics and some video
How can they know it’s from Apollo 11? I mean, there were a few launches out that way.
I’m just waiting for that story to get picked up again by a newspaper that uses imperial measurements, which will faithfully convert it to 13,999ft. 
I want to go on a sexpedition as well.
If memory serves me, Saturn Vs were used for Apollo missions 8 through 17 (Apollo 7 used the Saturn 1B). So there are 50 of those Stage 1 engines out there, of which only 5 are from Apollo 11. I’d be surprised if they got lucky with the first one found, but it’s possible each one had a distinctive enough trajectory that they could have a much better chance of finding the right one.
Maybe they had serial numbers or other identifiable markings on them?
I think they might well have a number on them. I’m just wondering how far apart the various stage 1s were when they hit the water. It’s quite interesting to me- did the stage 1 hit the water intact or did it disintegrate in its descent through the air, how far apart were the various splashdown points, how would currents have affected the descent through the water, etc. Then to get a clue they’d have to find someone who can dig up the trajectory and where it was at stage separation, etc. Quite a nice bit of work in my opinion.
Beautiful. That linked photo is art!
I always just assumed that the entire stage fell away from the rocket intact and stayed that way. If it was strong enough withstand the stresses of a Saturn V launch, I figured it should be damn near indestructible.
But it starts reentry at about 6000 mph. And as it descends, it’s probably tumbling, and I’d guess that that, plus the deceleration stresses due to the thickening atmosphere could be enough to shake some things loose.
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Not to mention hitting the water at terminal velocity.
Besides what Earl says, yes it has to be very strong but most of that strength is generally in one direction, along the long axis of the rocket. It’ll be much less strong in other directions. It’s not like it’s a sphere and equally strong in all directions.