Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: the next step in drug traffic cut short.Subs!

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>]

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From: "David Buchner" <buchner@wcta.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: the next step in drug traffic cut
short.Subs!


[At 08:38 +0000 9/11/00, Captain Nemo wrote: And (considering the
unreasonable anti-submarine-project prejudice exhibited by some people in
the neighborhood back when I was building the Nautilus) if they could have
seized my boat for carrying contraband Die Hards, they probably would have.]

"What was their big beef?"

Who knows, Dave?  Some people are just that way, I guess.  Fortunately, the
police said I was cool, and figured these folks were crackpots; so their
complaints never amounted to anything.   Still, living under constant
animosity was a drag.  But then again, it just made the enthusiasm we
experienced from others when the sub proved to be a success all that much
better.  We ended up in the newspapers; the sub got featured at a Dive Show;
and we always had people coming by to see it parked on my front lawn.  All
of which only made those "naysayers" increasingly unhappy.    Hard to figure
some people.  We were all having a good time and not hurting anybody.  So
indeed, what WAS wrong with them?

Maybe it's like a wise old man once told me: "No matter what you do, some
will speak well of you, and some will not".  I guess that's true when it
comes to building your own submarine, too.  Some folks wished us success;
and others gleefully predicted (and even worked for) our failure.

But that was then and this is now.  Tonight, I just climbed out of the hot
tub that sits in my gazebo, situated in a beautiful Hawaiian forest; and
"those people" are probably still sitting back there getting an ulcer
wondering who they can hate next.  In a way, their resentment of me was part
of the reason I'm here today, so maybe I should thank them.  ;-)

Maybe building a submarine defies convention; but I've heard that sub
builders from John Phillip Holland on down have been treated like "some kind
of nut"  for attempting such a project.  So, I guess if folks visiting this
website are contemplating their own boat, they should be prepared for the
possibility of a certain amount of unreasonable criticism.   I was too busy
building to really care what the "hate mongers" had to say; and my advise to
all present or prospective sub builders is to handle that kind of negativity
in exactly the same way.

Success is the best revenge against those who have tried to hold you back.
Keep on building!

Pat