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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fresh water sub tourism
Greetings all-Marco is exactly right see: http://www.navsea.navy.mil.ndp I'll make mine an SSN or CVA. Regards, M.Steed
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From: Marco Zeeman <marco@zeeman.co.nz>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:59:06 +1300
>The US has over 400 ships from subs to aircraft carriers up for disposal, no
>end of potential wrecks for those needing one. They cant export the retired
>ships as there is a federal ban so they need a home somehwhere in the
>States.
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>I represent a group in NZ doing just that, sinking a retired navy frigate as
>an underwater attraction
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>See www.divewreck.co.nz
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>Cheers
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>Marco
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>> I wonder if it would be possible to create one's own wrecks?
>> Just sink something after it's been "fixed up" to be more
>> interesting.
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>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Ricci Dustin writes:
>>> I guess the key to fresh water sub tourism is wrecks.
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>> I wonder if it would be possible to create one's own wrecks?
>> Just sink something after it's been "fixed up" to be more
>> interesting.
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>>> I am looking at Lake Mead in Nevada. This is the
>>> largest man made lake in North America.
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>> How deep is it? How much other traffic is there? You'd have
>> to set up safe lanes for submarine operation, just to avoid
>> running into the curious.
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>>> 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.
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>> A sunken B-29? What else do you know about this
>> one? Is it a dive site?
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>>> I would still love to here from anyone who dove on the
>>> Auguste Piccard or knows anything about the tours it
>>> dove.
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>> That's a good question. I wonder at what point the operation
>> of that boat became too expensive. The story of that tourism
>> business would make a very good book for Carsten to write.
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>> Mike H.
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