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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Living deep (was: your own country)
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:12:02 EST SJSVOB@aol.com writes:
><<I once dreamed of building a sub base like that. Slip it out into the
>ocean and sink it into place. Or even build it in place. As long as a
>government doesn't find out then you can get away with it.>>
>
>I've thought of this as well. I have often dreamed of living life off
the
>grid. Captain Nemo is my hero. I have been working toward purchasing
>a sailboat and saving enough money to cruise around the world.
There's a lot of us who see the icy Captain as a role model. I wonder
just how practical those Whiskey-class boats would be? Could we
really make batteries with coal? Verne's science was usually quite
good.
>Though I did once have an idea for a secret undersea base:
>
>I'd weight some tanks with an open access port in the bottom and drop
them in
>30 feet of water off the coast of a desolate atoll. Then use solar
power
>from land, or tidal power, to run a compressor to continually replenish
the
>air supply.
In an ideal world (i.e., one in which I have unlimited funds), I'd dig
out a small island so that the only way into an underground site
would be through a submerged tunnel.
When I was a kid and first thinking about this, I was carted off each
weekend to the family farm. There was a huge pond there, and I'd
wonder about how to sink into it a structure that would be totally
submerged. Given that the water was shallow (about 12 feet at
the dam) and still, the idea appeared uncomplicated (it still does).
That was the time when I conceived of an ambient two-place
submersible designed to mate with my structure.
Speaking of mating, I'd given some thought to affixing a large plate
to the deck or keel of a sub, or a flange around the hull. In the
underwater house there'd be an opening -- like the central
courtyard of a Spanish villa -- into which the sub would fit. The plate
would be large enough to completely cover the opening (bigger than
the sub) and once the sub was in place and the gasket was tight, one
could simply pump the water out and have access to the entire sub.
>Thing is that I am vegetarian. Can man live off of sea vegetables
>alone?
No fish at all? Hmmm . . . . . This is worth asking about. I bet
there's
someone at the United Nations who has all the information.
Michael B. Holt Oregon Hill, Richmond,
Virginia, U.S.A.
"The art of the thing is to make it all look easy." --Frank
Mulville
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