Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Submarine Questions? (was "Hey, looky, rocket fuel as ballast!")

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 02:38 PM, Gail Paleka wrote:

> Thanks for the list of websites.  I looked at "plans for dummies" and found plans for a wet sub that I had seen here of late.  What was interesting was that they listed it under the heading of "wacky" projects.  I thought that said something kind of "off beat" about how some people see those who are interested in this sort of thing.  Personally, I don't think wanting to build or own a submersible is wacky at all.  

Well, I don't know about that. I consider myself to be quite wacky. ;-)

And proud of it.

and On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 06:21 PM, Brian Cox wrote:

> Tell me about it !   I get so much static it's not even funny.  But I guess it's double for me  since I'm incorporating ferro-cement.  " your building a submarine? and you're building it out of cement ?  uh huh..."

No kidding. My dad told me there's a guy in Fergus Falls, MN who built a submarine -- but that he insists that his friends don't tell anyone, and keeps it secret. My guess is that's a measure of how tired he got of being a spectacle; having the local papers come out and do "Local Wacky Guy Does Wacky Thing, Builds Own Wacky Submarine: Claims No Threat to Local Shipping or Geese" stories.