{"id":15719,"date":"2014-03-14T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15719"},"modified":"2014-03-14T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:00:12","slug":"sunken-pirate-ship-resurrected-at-big-bear-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sunken-pirate-ship-resurrected-at-big-bear-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken Pirate Ship Resurrected at Big Bear Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sunkship.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A one-third scale 16th century Spanish galleon replica prop in the movie &#8220;Time Bandits,&#8221; has risen from the depths of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/big-bear-lake.html\">Big Bear Lake<\/a> after spending approx. two weeks under water. \u00a0The recent storm sunk the\u00a0pirate ship,\u00a0owned &amp; \u00a0operated as a tour\/party boat by Loren Hafen. He used his knowledge as a\u00a0certified scuba diver to attach deflated air-lift bags to the bottom of the ship, then inflate them with an air compressor. The\u00a0air-lift bags\u00a0used for\u00a0salvaging underwater objects such as yachts and planes, helped raise the ship to a vertical position.\u00a0Once \u00a0up, a hole was found in\u00a0the ship. The owner hopes to refurbish his treasured boat and have it working again by summer when the tourist crowd returns and\u00a0Holloway\u2019s Marina celebrates its 100-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sunkshi.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Time Bandits 1981 movie release the boat was used for tours in Los Angeles and Newport Beach harbors. Our SeeCalifornia.com staff took a ride on it (shown in photos) on Big Bear Lake. If it&#8217;s able to float, we&#8217;ll ride it again! \u00a0Look to bigbear.com for info on this and other attractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-third scale 16th century Spanish galleon replica prop in the movie &#8220;Time Bandits,&#8221; has risen from the depths of Big Bear Lake after spending approx. two weeks under water. \u00a0The recent storm sunk the\u00a0pirate ship,\u00a0owned &amp; \u00a0operated as a tour\/party boat by Loren Hafen. He used his knowledge as a\u00a0certified scuba diver to attach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}