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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Manned Submersibles Book
Hi Doug,
If you still have some I'm very interrested. Let me
know....
Thanks
Laurent
--- SeaLordOne@aol.com wrote:
> Shipmates,
>
> Please let me give you an update on the Busby Book.
> I have been negotiating
> behind the scenes with the Naval Oceanographic
> Office (NAVO) for over a year
> now. As far as copyright goes, NAVO's position is
> that the book it is in the
> public domain.
> At one point they offered to provide a link on their
> own web page to my
> website, if I would be willing to put the document
> on my own website. But
> they later decided that the document is so out of
> date that they no longer
> want to support it in any way. But they encouraged
> me to make it available
> to the public.
>
> Why has it taken me 18 months to report all that to
> psubs? Well,
> establishing the public domain issue only took a few
> months. But, more
> interestingly, my interactions with various Navy
> personnel over the months
> led me down an unexpected path. After digging into
> this issue for me, one of
> the librarians indicated that he had heard something
> about a misplaced
> shipment of orginal, virgin 1976 Busbys.
>
> After much sleuthing, and many months, they found a
> shipment of well over 100
> unopened Busbys in a NASA library in Mississippi. I
> expect the entire lot to
> be delivered to me within 30 days. When I receive
> then, I will make
> arrangements to distribute them to psubs members.
> The books will be free,
> but I will probably have to charge $5.00 or
> something like that for shipping.
>
> Here is the deal I cut with the Navy. They will
> give me all of the books for
> free, with the understanding that I will hand them
> out for free, and that
> those who recieve them will not sell them, either.
> So if, as I begin to
> distribute them, I start to see a rash of "excellent
> condition" Busbys for
> sale on e-bay, I will be forced by the terms of my
> agreement to cease
> distribution. This is an honor system thing.
>
> I had hoped to make these books available as a
> Christmas present for psubs,
> but it looks like they will not arrive until after
> the first of the year.
> Please do not contact the library yourself...it has
> taken me 18 months to set
> up this deal, and I don't want anything to upset it
> at the last minute.
>
> When the books arrive, I will announce them. I did
> not want to share this
> informatin until I had the books in my basement, but
> since folks are asking,
> I thought I would share the good news. It isn't
> over until the fat lady
> sings, but my NASA contact sent me an e-mail just
> yesterday saying that my
> boxes (our boxes) have been moved from the library
> to the shipping
> department. So please just sit tight on the Busby
> issue for a month.
>
> Doug Farrow
>
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