Dry docking the USS Cobia will be more than just refurbishment for the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
Executive Director Kevin Cullen explained on yesterday’s Be My Guest program that the dry docking will be documented with help from a company called Lake Coast Local.
The full-featured document can be put to good use.
The Executive Director noted, “We can then use it in film festivals, but also as marketing and preservation to understand how this works.”
Cullen says the documentary will also be used inside the museum when the Cobia returns, and could also be put out into the national and international film circuit.
“This is a way for us to share the story nationally and internationally about how museums do the work we do to care for American heritage,” he explained. “In this case, one that has tremendous history and impact in terms of even turning the tide of World War II and its role in the Pacific.”
The USS Cobia will be towed away by two tug boats to Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, where it will be pulled out of the water, cleaned, and repaired as needed.
Cullen also says some staff members will be riding in the World War II submarine to Sturgeon Bay and back.
However, the sub will not be going underwater like it was built to do.
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum has raised over $1 million to have the Cobia dry-docked.
The plan is to have it shipped off by September 4th.
