Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Response to Captain Nemo's attack

[Phil Nuytten <72020.572@compuserve.com>]

Hello, Nemo:
        "Fig"?? Haven't heard that since grade school!! How do you get a
big company to build your sub ideas? Nuthin' to it! Start a dive shop when
you're about 15 or so, run it after school and weekends. Sell it after high
school and use the $ to buy commercial dive gear - Hard Hat, compressors,
small barge. etc. Spend 7 days a week in small aircraft flying up and down
the coast doing two bit salvage jobs in Scuba gear and try to get on major
construction projects once in a while to justify the cost of the heavy gear
and get experience in it. As you become more succesful, phase out the
Scuba, rev up the commercial aspect, go into U/W T.V., Surveying,
rehabilitation of bridges,docks, dams, installation of intakes, outfalls,
cable crossings, etc. Start to design and build the gear that either is too
expensive to buy, or doesn't do quite what you need, or exists only in your
head. In the meantime, be active in all the various societies, standards
groups, etc.or found them if they dont exist, write articles, give
technical papers, civic talks, etc. Do this for about . .oh, 5 to 7, 
years. Then gamble everything . .house, car, boat, dog, business, etc., to
go into deep gas diving on offshore oil rigs - diving bells, ROV's, subs,
sat systems, etc. When this is succesful - another four or five years,
gamble it all again to go into partnership with a couple of guys in an
international company. After this company buys out it's competition and
becomes one of the largest commercial diving companies' in the world, sell
out your interest to buy back your original company and have enough change
left to start building something that is unique, cutting-edge, and has a
good market. Start a new company to manufacture device and it's spin- offs,
 and operate for about,. . . oh, 10 years or so, Take that company public,
use the proceeds to build up a large machine-shop, test facility, and
manufacturing plant . . and then sell your interest  so that you can build
a smaller duplicate plant that you own outright.  All this time, about 35
years or so, be building submersibles on a skunk works basis, and trying to
find work for them where ever you can - often in competition with your own
'day job'. Then you just use the now 100% yours manufacturing facility to
build your own and/or your top technical guys ideas. - whether or not they
make money. If the stuff you build doesn't work well or doesn't finally
prove to have a market, then you turn breasts- uppermost. and thats all she
wrote!   See . . .nuthin' to it!
        Follow up on Vances query to you, re: Terry Kerby: Terry is head
pilot with HURL ( Hawaiian Undersea Research. Labs) part of University of
Hawaii. HURL operates from the Makai Range pier, just past Makapu'u Point.
They have Pisces 4 and Pisces 5 - two Canuck subs built by International
Hydrodynamics, a few blocks from us ( I was a Director of Hyco - Jeez,
'Hyco',' Nuytco' - must be some peculiar Canuck affectation!) Terry is a
super guy, a good friend, and a respected colleague. If you haven't checked
out their operations, you really should do so. Also two of our 2000 foot
minis, 'DeepWorker'  #8 and #9 are operating out of Oahu - ADE ( American
Deepwater Engineering) uses them for military stuff off Kauai, and for deep
precious coral off Kona , Lanai, and Makapu'u. They are on the 'Islander',
a sub-handling vessel docked in Honolulu. See Paul Ainsbury, ops manager,
he is a fellow member of the DSPA ( deep submersible pilots assoc.) and
all-round good guy. Mention my name and he might give you the 25 cent tour!
Regards
Phil Nuytten