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דורון עמיר ז"ל. צוללן מס' 385 אל"מ דורון עמיר 1947-2008. ערב מורשת לזכרו של דורון קיבוץ עין החורש 18.6.2009. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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  • Later, Amir was selected to join the second expedition, to recover the bridge fin as a memorial to the men of the DAKAR, to see if any remains could be found, and to try to discover the cause of the tragedy. He and the rest of the team spent many long days working with marine forensics experts to carefully plan the expedition. Part of the plan was to know exactly what to look for to support (or refute) any possible cause of the sinking. Valve positions, switches, damage condition, hatches, masts, voice pipes ... any sign or clue was considered in advance. Amirs technical expertise was crucial to this effort, and helped ensure that we would learn all we could from the wreck of the DAKAR.On board the expedition, Amir worked tirelessly, spending long hours watching the ROV monitors, to examine every piece of wreckage and determine its condition. Though the precise cause could not be determined because of extensive damage from the implosion of the hull, Amir and the team were able to rule out most external factors and show that flooding in the forward part of the ship contributed to the sinking. He felt that a combination of circumstances led to a chain reaction that the crew was unable to overcome.The Nauticos team that mounted the expeditions greatly appreciated Doron Amirs professionalism, expertise, hard work, and good will. He was a good shipmate, and his contribution to the discovery of the DAKAR will always be remembered. David Jourdan Nauticus ,

    Doron Amir / David Jourdan Retired Captain Doron Amir spent more than 12 years in the submarine flotilla, starting as a technical engineer and finishing as the Squadron Commander. As a young officer, Amir was part of the T-conversion team in Portsmouth and spent several years serving on those boats, rising to Chief Engineer. Even after 30 years, he remembered the DAKAR in detail, and could recall any bolt, any valve, anything on the boat. He still knew the drawings by heart. He was one of the best qualified men to be called when a submarine shipwreck was discovered in the DAKAR search area and needed to be identified.Amir was slated to ride home with DAKAR in 1968; but fate intervened, and there was no room on board. So he flew back to Israel, and arrived in time to hear the terrible news. He joined the LEVIATHAN and began to search for DAKAR. So, it was with great emotion that, in May of 1999, Amir began the 14 hour sail from Haifa to the DAKAR search area, to come on board the research vessel and help identify the submarine, after over 30 years of searching. But Amir was a professional. He insisted that the team take a piece of paper, and without any emotions, write down what they were looking to find, any conclusive sign, that would prove the wreck to be the DAKAR. Too much time, money, and effort had been spent to make a mistake. So, it was without emotion that the team came aboard and studied the images on the monitors, and saw that the wreck was, indeed, the DAKAR.It was only later, when operations were concluded and the research vessel left the site, that the emotions flooded forth. Amir thought, Okay, we found the grave of our friends, and that's it. Now we can declare that the DAKAR was found!

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  • 30 as Doron, and seeing how much the success meant to them. After finding Dakar, the decision was quickly made to launch a second expedition to fully explore the site, with goals to find why the submarine had sunk, what had happened to the crew, and were there any possibilities of recovery of all or part of the submarine. The level of planning was stepped up significantly in preparation for this second expedition. For the next year, Doron and I grew even closer as we spent the months defining all the possible scenarios which could have caused the accident, and what particularly minute details we would have to look for to confirm which scenario was the correct one. We decided that it would be imperative to have Doron with us on the expedition, as we could never bring ourselves up to the level of intimate knowledge that he had, and that we might miss something that his trained eyes wouldnt. I will never forget, and will always be grateful for the experience I gained from Doron in exploring the Dakar through his eyes and mind. One of the objectives during this expedition was to recover a 4 ton section of the Dakar sail which had been separated from the submarine. This recovery occurred at night and was very dramatic. One of the most unforgettable scenes in the National Geographic documentary, Mystery of the Dakar, is a look at Dorons face just as the sail is coming out of the water and onto the ship. The emotions in that face tell the whole story. One of my favorite anecdotes about Doron, involved an incident when we delivered the section of sail to Haifa. The whole delivery was done under tight security and secrecy, but Doron had cleared it for his wife, Sara, to come to the base because of the particular meaning the event had for her. Saras fianc had been lost on the Dakar. Doron asked me if I could take Sara up to the sail, as it would be more appropriate for me to do than for him

    Doron Amir and the DakarBy Tom DettweilerI first met Doron Amir in early 1997. We had been invited to Tel Aviv to convene a reopening of the investigation into the loss of the Dakar, in order to offer support of the US Navy in the search for Dakar. A panel of experts in every aspect of the tragic loss was assembled and put at our disposal for this investigation, and one of those experts was Doron Amir. Doron, a former engineering officer on the sister submarine to the Dakar, was brought in not only for his engineers knowledge of the submarine, but also his experience in the operation of submarines at that time as well as his personal knowledge of the crew of the Dakar and their personalities. Clearly there was a significant amount of knowledge residing in this one man that could contribute much to the investigation. But what became even clearer was the passion emanating from Doron to succeeding in this effort to find the Dakar. These were his friends and his contemporaries and he was going to succeed! Doron and I soon became close friends spending hours together so that I could gather as much information about the Dakar as possible. He collected valuable information from other engineers and officers as well, all of which went into the growing pile of information which all led to the success in finding Dakar. After several unsuccessful or aborted attempts by the US Navy, my company was contracted to conduct the search and I was honored to be appointed as the project manager. I used my friendship with Doron to step up our efforts in extracting every detail possible for our first search for Dakar. We were going to find it, and we did! Before releasing the information to the families, whose hopes had been raised and dashed before, it was decided to send out experts representing the Israeli Navy to confirm our find. Of course, Doron was one of these experts because of his extensive overall knowledge of Dakar. The emotions poured from Doron as he was presented with the first images of Dakar lying on the bottom. I have always considered the finding of Dakar the most rewarding of any projects in my professional career, primarily because of the interaction with people such/.

  • 30 As I took Sara towards the sail, I saw a sudden weakening and wondered if this was a good idea. Sara then asked me if she could touch the sail. I said of course and as she laid hands on the sail, I saw a strength pass into her, as if she had made contact with her lost fianc, and I suddenly realized fully the closure and importance that this event meant to all the surviving family members and Israel as a nation. I also saw an incredible compassion in Doron, that he recognized that he would have to share this event with his beautiful wife, but that it would have to be independently because of the unique meaning it had to her. I will always be grateful to Doron for making me a part of this experience. We returned back to the Dakar, and got down to serious business looking at the thousands of details, evaluating the cause of the loss, and Doron was able to separate the personal impact of what he was seeing, and professionally step us through detail after detail, analyzing what each little bit of information meant. In our many hours together, Doron had also talked to me about two of his other passions, his brain pills and flying. Doron had become involved in a company that was producing supplements which helped the brain, and that he had personally tested these supplements while studying and successfully passing his flight exams. He knew that I too had a love of flying and we had great times discussing planes and flights and he promised me that we would go flying together as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Unfortunately I never got that opportunity, but I did get an opportunity to spend a day with Doron after the project was over, and he drove me all around Israel and taught me the entire process in the making of olive oil, as it was harvest time. It was another day I will treasure. I was just headed out the door of my home to go back to sea on a new project when I received a call regarding Dorons accident. Over the next few days, I received many emails from others involved in the Dakar project, all in shock at the sudden loss, but all remembering the good hours we were fortunate to spend with Doron in returning the Dakar to Israel, and I realized that I was not the only person who had been so strongly impacted by his friendship.

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