Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Ocean Environment

["D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net>]

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From: Dan J. Rice <dan.j.rice@sherwin.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Ocean Environment


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>Here in New Jersey there has been a aging debate over plans to dump dredged
>material from near the Brooklyn docks on a site a few miles off the Jersey
>coast.  There was a hearing at Fort Monmouth where the Army Corps of
Engineers
>was supposed to hear testimony from all sides, but it turned into a one
sided
>shouting match.  There were about 1200 members of the Longshoreman's union
bussed
>in to  do the shouting.

Yikes!!

>Others who came to testify against the planned dredge dump were not able to
and the situation is not yet resolved.
>
>There is one congressman involved, Frank Pallone, and large economic
>considerations both for the Brooklyn docks and for the Jersey shore's
tourist
>trade ( even the perception of pollution can keep them away in droves).
With
>all that money at stake and so many people so worked up about it, it
occured to
>me that one or more of you who have subs and like to use them, might find a
>paying, or at least subsidized, reason to dive.

Sounds like a job for Doug Privitt.  http://www.azstarnet.com/~delta/  Then
again, that may be a little overkill.  Still, if he was approached by
interested groups with the funds, who knows?

>  I don't know what sort of data
>collection you might be able to market, a few snapshots, some collection of
>samples, taking the congressman for a ride so he can say he went on a
>fact-finding mission, who knows.  But it is a big deal around here and it
is
>underwater so....