Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fresh water sub tourism

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

And you can invest a few hundred dollars into some Mexican currency and
spread it on the bottom.  You know, them gold plated coins they got.
Carl


Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Ricci Dustin writes:
> >I guess the key to fresh water sub tourism is wrecks.
> 
> 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.
> 
> >I am looking at Lake Mead in Nevada. This is the
> >largest man made lake in North America.
> 
> 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.
> 
> >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.
> 
> A sunken B-29?   What else do you know about this
> one?  Is it a dive site?
> 
> >I would still love to here from anyone who dove on the
> >Auguste Piccard or knows anything about the tours it
> >dove.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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