Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: 2004 Awards - Need help with categories

["Brian Cox" <ojaibees@ojai.net>]

How about an award for the most inovative sub !!!!   or how about for the fastest sub (in its class) !?  or how about an award for the most inexpensively built (but meeting all safety reguirements) sub !!?  or, I know, how about the best use of ferro-cement in a sub !!!

Brian 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Keefer" <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: 2004 Awards - Need help with categories


> Hi Mike,
> 
> Diesel?
> Who invented batteries?
> Scuba? Cousteau?
> MacGyver?
> First PSUBer who wins gets an award named after them?
> 
> Regards,
> Ray
> 
> 
> Michael B. Holt wrote:
> > Ray Keefer wrote:
> > 
> >>The Kitteredge award is for a whole sub. A major project.
> >>
> >>I was thinking of an award for specific gear like a scrubbing system,
> >>motor controller, sonar, PLC computer.... Some specific piece of
> >>hardware project that spreads knowledge through the group. In this way
> >>some of those whom have not yet reached the "Carsten Point" can
> >>contribute in some smaller way.
> > 
> > 
> > That's different.  Totally different.  I like that a lot. 
> > 
> > 
> >>More feedback please? Does the Kittredge award cover it? No need for a
> >>new award?
> > 
> > 
> > The Kittredge award might cover it, but it might be that
> > we'd decide to give it for either the gadget or the whole
> > sub--and not both.  That's not a good thing.
> > 
> > Let's avoid the name of one of those guys who invented 
> > escape gear.  That's depressing.
> > 
> > Simon Lake and John Holland patented and built gear for
> > special purposes, but their main activity was building the 
> > entire boat.  Likewise, Bauer, van Drebbel, Bushnell, etc.
> > Laubeuf, Laurenti, Zedé, all built entire boats.
> > 
> > No one is going to name anything after Horace Hunley.  His 
> > partner, McClintock, was the designer; McClintock died in 
> > the explosion of a mine he was testing (it worked, I suppose).
> > 
> > Wasn't it Faraday who built the first electric motor?
> > That's critical to what we're doing.
> > 
> > Who invented something critical, and internal, to submarines?
> > 
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
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