Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Shipping from California

["Greg Cotton" <gregc02@attglobal.net>]

The one I REALLY wanted was the full sized, diesel powered, suface mock-up. It was for sale in Boats 
and Harbors about a year ago. It didn't have any chance of even being an ambient sub but it would have 
been really cool to motor around in anyhow. It would have to have been sailed over from Malta though. If I 
remember rightly, it was "only" about $50,000. I could have been the terror of Lake Minnetonka.

Although, if I'd spent that kind of money on a "sub", my wife would make sure I was living on it! She is 
pretty tolerant of us touring them on vacations and my going to work weekends on the Torsk (SS-423) in 
Baltimore a couple of times a year.

Short movie review...The photography and effects were great, but the story really, really SUCKED!

Greg 

From:           	DBACKIDS@aol.com
Date sent:      	Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:48:31 EST
Subject:        	Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Shipping from California
To:             	personal_submersibles@psubs.org
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> It was an awesome movie, but i don't think the 2 50 footers that were sold 
> were big enough to convert into a human-sized sub. I could be wrong, but I'm 
> pretty sure I've seen those two subs, and even though they're 50 feet long, I 
> think they were only four or five in diameter. This estimate is from seeing 
> them in a tank over fifty feet away, so that's my credibility.
> 
> david
>