Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fresh water sub tourism

["Mike Orsay" <homeworld_general@hotmail.com>]

I definately would pay to see real wrecks, probably not planted though.


>From: jbarlow@bjservices.ca
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fresh water sub tourism
>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:49:18 -0600
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>      I for one would pay to go on a submarine to see a B-29.  Or wrecks in
>the Great Lakes.  To see dark a murky muddy bottom though probably not.
>Some people would pay to see "planted" wrecks though.  There are ones like
>that I have seen, but I'm not sure where just now.
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>Jay.
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>                     Michael B Holt
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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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