CLOSED CAPTIONS FOR THIS NEWSCAST ARE AVAILABLE IN SPANISH. THERE WILL SOON BE A NEW DIVING ATTRACTION IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. NEWS 8 PHOTOGRAPHER ANDY MANIFOLD WAS THERE WHEN LANCASTER SCUBA SUNK A LEAR JET AT WILLOW SPRINGS PARK IN LEBANON COUNTY. TODAY, WE’RE GOING TO SINK A LEARJET, START GETTING THE PLANE. SITUATED FROM THE LANCASTER SCUBA CENTER. OUR TEAM IS UP HERE TODAY TO SINK THIS AIRPLANE. OR JET. LEAR JET AND LEAR JET IS HAS GOT A PRETTY NEAT HISTORY TO IT. FINALLY, AFTER ALL THIS TIME, WE’RE GETTING IT IN. ARE WE GOOD? I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA. I OFFERED TO FLY IT HERE, BUT I WASN’T SURE HOW WE WERE GOING TO LAND IT. I LIFTED OVER THAT HOLE. SO I’M GOING TO HAVE TO GO UP. YEAH. FOR MOST OF ITS LIFE, IT TRANSPORTED ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT PEOPLE. SO IT SAVED A TON OF LIVES. IT’S HAD A FEW CELEBRITIES ON IT OVER TIME. FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH, THE FIRST HILLARY CLINTON, MICK JAGGER. DO WE KNOW HOW IT’S GOING TO GO? NOT EXACTLY. NO. THERE YOU GO. YOU GOT IT. WHAT? THEY’LL BE ABLE TO LOAD THIS IN THEY’RE GOING TO SUBMERGE IT. DIVERS CAN COME UP HERE, AND IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TRAINING, THEY CAN GO INSIDE OF IT. AND WE’RE GOING TO SUSPEND IT FROM TWO BARGES. I’M GOING TO GO DOWNHILL THOUGH. SO WATCH IT FRANK. WE’RE HOPING THIS WILL BRING PEOPLE IN MORE PEOPLE IN. WE LIKE TO GET THE WORD OUT. MORE DIVERS GOING AND PEOPLE DON’T EVEN REALIZE SOMETIMES THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE. THAT’S ABOUT IT. IT’S AN IMPORTANT THING. AND IT’S I THINK IT’S PRETTY NEAT THAT IT’S GOING TO END UP LIKE THIS AND NOT BE FORGOTTEN. BECAUSE EVERY TIME SOMEBODY GOES OVER THOSE TAIL NUMBERS AND LETTERS THAT THEY’RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS PLANE DID AS FAR AS SAVING LIVES, IT’S DOING IT. IT’S GOING IT’S GOING TO BE GOOD.
Jet that when carried a former US president will get new life as underwater scuba attraction
A airplane with a historical past of carrying organs, celebrities, and even former president George W. Bush, was sunk in a quarry on Thursday as a part of an underwater attraction that will probably be used for scuba coaching.The Learjet was submerged within the quarry at Willow Springs Park in Richland, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.Lisa Daley, supervisor of the dive pier, was excited in regards to the new underwater attraction. “Divers will be capable to go round it, they’ll be capable to go in it, and it’ll be suspended mid-water, which is model new for us. It is not going to the underside,” she mentioned.The jet will probably be prepared for divers a couple of days after it has been underwater.”For many of its life, it transported organs for transplant individuals, so it saved a ton of lives,” Daley mentioned.The airplane will now have a second life, not solely as an attraction but in addition by serving to individuals prepare for the skilled scuba diving setting.
A airplane with a historical past of carrying organs, celebrities, and even former president George W. Bush, was sunk in a quarry on Thursday as a part of an underwater attraction that will probably be used for scuba coaching.
The Learjet was submerged within the quarry at Willow Springs Park in Richland, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Lisa Daley, supervisor of the dive pier, was excited in regards to the new underwater attraction.
“Divers will be capable to go round it, they’ll be capable to go in it, and it’ll be suspended mid-water, which is model new for us. It is not going to the underside,” she mentioned.
The jet will probably be prepared for divers a couple of days after it has been underwater.
“For many of its life, it transported organs for transplant individuals, so it saved a ton of lives,” Daley mentioned.
The airplane will now have a second life, not solely as an attraction but in addition by serving to individuals prepare for the skilled scuba diving setting.
