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

[Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

You're right, this photo symbolizes so much about PSUBbers, at least in my
imagination. The guy looks rather like professor Piccard, minus the long
"crazy inventor" hair.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/submarines/centennial/images/holla
nd.jpg

Hey, looking at the hatch and its land, I can't see any sort of seal
whatsoever. Hmmm?


Alec




-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Holt [mailto:mholt@richmond.edu]
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 3:47 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Building the Impossible: The First Submarine


David Buchner wrote:
> 
> That's a great picture, if you're thinking of the one I'm thinking
> of. I have a copy of it hanging over my workbench.

How big is yoru copy?  I had a 3x5 blown up t poster size.  Some
day it's going to be hanging in my library. 

> I think "dressing up" like that would be a nice touch -- and
> would really add to the surrealism, on the lakes around here,
> of somebody pulling up to the launch area in a sub. 

The proper clothing is important to set the tone of the
event.  I wonder if we could convince ourselves that
the well-dressed psubber wears a derby?  Kinda like 
barbershop quartets always have those straw hats ...

> Sort of how the lady and I were musing last night about
> showing up in a bar during deer season in  a tuxedo -- with
> everyone else there in blood-soaked orange camoflage.

I once went to a Pizza Hut, in a tux, after a wedding.  With
me was another of the groom's attendants, also in a tux, and
one of the bridesmaids (in her gown).  

What is proper clothing for pusbbing?




Mike 
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