Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Beware of reporter

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

Louise called back and left a message. She is going through the web site
and had some more questions.

All of our work is being reviewed by a reporter.

At our first interview she asked if this was something a novice could do.
My comments were along the line of they have a lot of homework to catch
up on, building a sub is not a trivial undertaking and a mistake could
kill you.

The next question was, is it dangerous. I said yes, but you can guard
against that.

Regards,
Ray

> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:31:55 -0500
> From: "John R. Farrington" <jrf@austin.ibm.com>
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: Re:  [PSUBS-MAILIST] Beware of reporter
> 
> > I hope they don't take the usual "Goofball builds submarine" tack the
> > national press often does. Locals are fine, but the national folks
> > like to make fun of people they see as "unhip hobbyists."
> > 
> > 
> > >From: Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>
> > >Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > >To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> > >Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] reporter called
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I just had a reporter call me. She was Louise Nap from Wired News. She 
heard
> > >about us from John Farringtonand is going to follow up with John for
> > >further interviews.
> > >
> > >The article is going out sometime next week.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Ray
> 
> 
> 
> It's OK if they want to take the "Goofball builds submarine" tack.
> I'm not afraid of the truth.  ;-)
> 
> 
> Seriously, in our 2 other talks with the media, I've always
> tried to convey that we've really researched what we're doing,
> and in our case, are following plans designed by engineers.
> 
> Louise and I have chatted briefly, and probably tomorrow, Monica,
> myself and Louise will have a phone interview.  Her editor or
> someone like that had come across our website and wanted Louise
> to do a story about us.  Of course, we'll once again ask that
> they mention the psubs.org website, just so the readers don't
> think that Monica and I are the only goofballs out there!
> 
> Hopefully it'll turn out to be good PR for psubs in general.
> 
> -John