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Hi, Jay - thanks for the input. Our
territoriality has surfaced again (pardon the pun) with that kafuffle with
Denmark over that piece of rock up north.
Somehow I doubt that Rickover had this in mind when
he pushed for nukes.
I'm sure that's the reason Britain sold us crappy
subs - if Canada ever confronted the US with a working sub, Britain would have
to choose sides. There's certain irony in there somewhere. Al Qaeda
would claim success at turning us against each other, no doubt. Maybe
they'd bomb some Australian facility to drag them into it. The Queen would
insist the "children" stop fighting and get down to serious business like
supporting Bush in his times of need (like remedial thinking
classes).
Your byline mentions the Bahamas. Are you
subbing down there?
Rick L
Vancouver
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 6:38
AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Submarine
passage
Actually one of the
bones of contentions between the US and Canada is passage, especially in
the far north. Canada defines this area as other
than an archipelago which by law has the ?right of innocent passage? but
doesn?t really meet the international definition. The
US sends ships and subs through
there are every several years without formal permission to keep the issue
contested. Canada?s effort to purchase a
number of subs in the early Nineties was driven by this issue. The
US requests permission
prior to entry into Canadian waters for transits to Nanoose Bay to use the sound range there and
probably travels on the surface there due to the great opportunity for
collisions. The sonar gear in Juan de Fuca Straights was placed there
after Soviet incursions at the Bangor Sub Base.
You will require
permission to travel submerged or you will be the focus of an international
incident.
R/Jay
Bahamas
From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Rick and Marcia
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 8:41
PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] cockpit
control pics
Hey, that rings a bell.
Somewhere in the archives is a very similar
thread.
I believe we have reciprocity with
the US. They come up to
Nanoose
Bay to fire torpedoes,
etc. We let'em. ;-)
Actually, they do use our deep
water inlets for practise. i wonder if I need someone's permission . . .
ah, idle thoughts.
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