[PSUBS-MAILIST] Secret sub bases (was: More youthful wetsub experiences)

[Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Alec Smyth wrote:
> 
> Actually probably some real U-boats. There was word of people taking u-boats
> down there, going ashore, and scuttling them. I myself have been diving in a
> u-boat base on the Argentine coast, at a spot called Cracker Bay. There are
> some demolished concrete ruins, and railroad tracks that disappear into the
> sea. The place is on a farm in Patagonia which is owned by a german family
> who told us what it was.

This brings up a question.  We've talked about the problems of
launching from a trailer, but so far no one has talked about the
problems of launching a psub from a permanent and dedicated 
facility.

The railroad tracks at Cracker Bay is probably just an ancient
marine railway for working on fishing boats, but it would be
just about perfect for the small psubs we're discussing.

I ask because I have know a few persons who owned riverfront
houses with nice piers and all that.  Keeping a psub in the
boathouse would be a natural thing to do.

And it wouldn't have to be secret.



Mike