Project Wreck Exploration: USS Yorktown (CV-5)

What is Project Wreck Exploration?
PWE is one of my "small" side projects I made when I felt burned out after building my bigger, primary projects. It aims to recreate some of history's most famous shipwrecks, packed with a nice decorative research vessel the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, and a Mir deep sea submersible for you to control.
The Wrecks are accurately recreated and are 1:1 size, some of them are even in a realistic depth (only the ones that lie in a depth of less than 300 meters)

This build was made in memory of all the sailors on both sides, whose lives were lost during the battle of Midway. May they all rest in peace, and may never such event happen again.

WARNING!

To use this build, you have to create a custom water spawn, far from any of the vanilla islands:
This build has a massive 2.5 km x 2.5 km size base platform which would cause it to explode if you tried to spawn at the default water spawn.

History

Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned in 1937 as the lead ship of her class of carriers. She was docked in Norfolk during the attack on Pearl Harbor and after the attack was ordered to sail to the Pacific. She would participate in many battles until the Battle of the Coral Sea where whe recieved severe damage. Despite the damage, she was able to return to Hawai for repairs, which where done in just 48 hours (despite earlier estimates of at least 2 weeks). This allowed her to participate in one of the most important battles of the Pacific campaign, the Battle of Midway. During the battle she recieved numerous hits from Japanese planes which crippled her. Salvage efforts were made but on the 6th of June, Japanese submarine I-168 managed to hit her with 2 more torpedoes, making her salvage hopeless. She sunk the next day and remained in the darkness until 1998 when her wreck was discovered by Robert Ballard.

Now about my build

Base Platform Size: 2.5 km x 2.5 km

Actual Part Count: 298

Depth: 345 meters

This builds features an accurate, 1:1 replica of Yorktown's wreck. It also features the replica of the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, a Russian research vessel. The third vehicle of the build is a Mir submersible. Two of these submerisbles exist, the Mir-1 and Mir-2, both of them operate from the Keldysh in real life.
You can control the Mir sub to move around while the rest of the build is all stationary.
The wreck is located roughly below the Keldysh and almost next to the starting point of the submersible.

Controls:

• Pitch - Sub ascend-descend
• Roll - Sub yaw
• Throttle - Sub forward propulsion
• Thorttle + AG6 - Sub reverse propulsion (reverts the propulsion of Throttle. If you had 70% propulsion before activating AG6, after activating it, the propeller will produce -70% propulsion)
• AG7 - Lights

Some screenshots:

As always, I hope you like this build!