Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Building the Impossible: The First Submarine

[Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>]

David Buchner wrote:
> 
> You guys gotta picture of what you're talking about?

Two pictures are on the way to you.
> 
> Re: that "Building the Impossible" thing. Did anybody else get the impression that (A) the whole "time's running out" thing was an arbitrary and annoying contrivance? ...And (B) The sub was built -- not by "the team" -- but by the wooden-boat-builder guy, who also came up with most of the important ideas on how to build it? Weak, dude: they didn't even get in it. Why pick a group of people with no prior knowledge or interest in submarines, who have no experience thinking about these problems? Did they just pick names out of the phone book? But gee that English engineer-lady was pretty. And so was the finished boat.

If one keeps in mind that televeision is all about entertainment,
it all fits.  I didn't see it, so I can't comment on the details.
But I do know that TV is "gee-whiz" for a huge group that is
amazed by anything it doesn't understand.  Even British TV.

The team they assembled for the project was a good one.  I'd
have sought out that type of person for it.  I suspect they
really didn't have the time to think through a lot of what was
going on before the cameras appeared.

There's no way I'd build something like that and then not
dive in it.  I'd even put on the proper period clothing 
and haul on the oars.





Mike