Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories

["Emile" <2stroke@hetnet.nl>]

Carsten

The other Spurdog story is also nice ; it tells why psubs are safer than
surface yachts!
Do you know to who the Spurdog is sold; is it still in Rotterdam??


Grs, Emile

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carsten Standfuss" <MerlinSub@t-online.de>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories


> Hi Doug - which story you want to here..
>
> - Two boys, a 60ts submarine, a box of beer and a sandbank.. (Spurdog)
> - If you want a fire - switch the motorcontroller to reverse
> (Sgt.Peppers)
> - How to trim a passenger sub with the friendly kindness of the
> seabottom (Gran Canaria tourist sub)
> - Surfacing the brand new sub, a steel bar and a big bang (Freya)
> - A submarine, a thruster, a propeller, a diver and a cry (Sgt.Peppers)
> - Why a beautiful girl on the neck of the sub prevent diving
> (Sgt.Peppers)
> - 7 boats - a storm - 1 boat left (Spurdog)
>
> I will tell only one of the storys - tell me which one.. I am a
> technican more intresting to build the next one - so time is limitet..
>
> regards Carsten
>
> SeaLordOne@aol.com schrieb:
> >
> > Thijs,
> >
> > When I first joined this group, I asked myself, where are the stories?
I assumed that people who are passionate enough about diving to build their
own submarines would "flood" the site with interesting stories of their
adventures.  But that has not been the case, in my assessment.
> >
> > One hypothesis is that most folks are still at the design and
engineering stage of their boats, so they have no stories yet to tell.  But
I don't see data to support that hypothesis.  There are quite a number of
folks on this site who have in fact had those adventures...but they do not
talk about them very much.  They continue to discuss the engineering of the
boats.  I sometimes wonder if they are more interested in operating their
boat, or designing the next one?
> >
> > That hypothesis suggests that many of the folks on this site are more
interested in designing and building their boat than they are about
operating it.  That might explain why people who already have their boats
keep talking about design issues.  We may have a lot more "engineers" than
"romantics".  I am a romantic.  The only reason I am willing to do all of
the math is because I want to be a U-Boat Commander, a Captain Nemo.  I just
may not be typical of this group.  This group may have more "engineers" than
"romantics".  (Not to say these are mutually exclusive categories: John
Holland and Simon Lake were both).
> >
> > Mark Ragan spoke at the PSUBS conference this year.  He built a K-350,
which led to searching for the Hunley, which led to writing books on the
Hunley, which led to moving to the excavation site of the Hunley to become
the Hunley Historian in Residence at the Museum.  Something like that.  He
traced this theme, how one thing led to another, and concluded by telling us
that if we simply build our boats, the adventures will come along.  He too,
it appears to me, is a romantic.  To him, and to me, the psub is not the
goal.  The adventures are the goal.  The psub is just the bridge (no pun
intended) to get me there.
> >
> > Another thought is that once folks build the boat, they leave the group,
or at least become less active.  Perhaps you need the group a lot to design,
you need them less to build and test, and you hardly need them at all to
operate and maintain.
> > I don't know.
> >
> > Just a few musings.  Perhaps I need to share a few Undanuted stories?
Or would "the engineers" roll their eyes at me and steer me back to the
math, like a wayward grade school student who had not done his homework?
Just kidding!
> >
> > Doug Farrow
>
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