Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Undersea telescope...

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl S. Luttrell" <SDECO@prodigy.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Undersea telescope...


> Great Site!
> It brings back lots of memories. I led a clean room dive team that
serviced
> the internals of the IMB detector located 2000 feet underground in a road
> salt mine east of Cleveland,OH.  I took a photo of one of my divers in
front
> of the PMTs that appeared in National Geo in 1988, just after the neutrino
> blast from a supernova star had been detected.  Worked that project for
> about ten years.  Good to see the info on the newer detectors and
recognized
> lots of names from the IMB years.  Thanks for passing along that link.
>
> Karl Luttrell

Hmmmm!  2000 feet again; interesting correlation to Vance's post.  Same
depth.  Something to do with the detection process, maybe?

I heard the Japanese have a similar station way down in the belly of a lead
mine, too.    Tell me something, Karl: why are scientists interested in
neutrinos?

VBR,

Pat