WWII seaplane gets stranded multiple days on beach.
A Catalina PBY being used in the filming of the Nicolas Cage movie “USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage” remains stranded off the shore of Orange Beach, Alabama, after taking on water Monday.
The WWII aircraft was performing touch and goes for cameras Monday when flooding began.
“It made a couple of turns and a couple of runs, and then we got a call that it was having a little trouble,” said John Rutger, dive operations coordinator for the film.
Scuba diving to inspect the plane, he saw no signs of major s
