You probbably want to make sure you have good depth, so you're not hitting bottom ever. Can you scuba the site? Now adays you can use scuba up to 300 or more feet with various mixed-gas diving (heliox and such) How big is the lake? and of coure insurance...
You'll also need to find out if the lake is radioactive or not?
As well you will need special permission to operate in the lake I would imagine.
Let me know of how this progresses. We're all eager to find out!
Ricci Dustin
I guess the key to fresh water sub tourism is wrecks.
I am looking at Lake Mead in Nevada. This is the
largest man made lake in North America. It is full of
wrecks. And it is 20 minutes from Las Vegas so the
tourist traffic is there to pull from. There is even a
B-29 that went down in the 40s and is still intact.
I would still love to here from anyone who dove on the
Auguste Piccard or knows anything about the tours it
dove.
--- Wolf <scubadiver@wolfmaan.com> wrote:
>
> Strange this posting should come up...
> Some time Ago I had the idea to have just such a
> service, an underwater tourist submarine or set
of
> submarines. I live in Niagara-Falls Ontario so I
> have the choice of two great lakes. I didnt think
> the idea would work. but what do you have in
mind?
> There are some awesome shipwrecks and such in the
> great lakes.
> Ricci Dustin wrote:Hello all!!
> I am exploring the possibility of operating a
> tourist
> sub in freshwater lakes with acceptable
visibility
> (15ft plus). Historically tourist submarines in
> lakes
> do not do well (Auguste Piccard). The biggest
> challenge is the perception that there is nothing
to
> see. In 2 days I will start towing a submersible
> video
> camera and diving possible sites to operate a sub
at
> a
> lake with good all year round tourism. Yes it is
> dull,
> no color, coral, or big sea creatures. How would
you
> approach this challenge? Does anyone know of
other
> inland fresh water sub tourism operations. Anyone
> ever
> ride on the Auguste Piccard and what did you see?
> Best regards;
> Ricci
>
>
>
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