Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Were they are gone..?

[Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>]

VBra676539@aol.com wrote:
> 
> << Benthos V       : (1963, USA)           ??
> 
>  Sold to the USSR, 1980 (approximately).  When I find the letter
>  from the builder, I'll try to scan it for you.
> 
>   >>
> Which manager? I tried to track Bennie V for several months through its
> owners in Washington but it apparently got lost during the dissolution of a
> dive company. Any idea who bought it for the Russians and where it went? 

I found the letter.  It's not a late-80s thing: I got in June
of 1979!  It's from George A. Moak.  He was the Coporate Manager,
Communications Services and Advertising, for Lear Sieglar, Inc.

The letter states that the Data and Controls Division (which
built the thing) was disbanded in about '68.  The personnel 
were reassigned and the whole thing forgotten.  

He must have told over the phone that it was sold the 
Russians.  I know we talked two or three times.

Also in this file is a letter to Brazoport College, asking 
about their Sportsman 600.  I also contacted Santa Barbara 
City college, and from them I got a copy of the DOWB 
"pilot's manual" (it's a collection of xeroes of user's 
manuals of the VCR and stuff like that, a couple of charts 
of battery use).  Art Markel signed a letter accompanying 
an old brochure about the Aluminaut.  Too bad I was 
distracted by a wife, kids and employment: I might have 
a nice sub by now if I'd maintained my focus.



Mike