Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Convention Speaker

[Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>]

Hi Jon,

He would be most welcomed. I am sure we would not
attack him for the failures to his sub. Certainly we
would want his perspective on what went wrong and how
he would of done it differently in hind sight.

Reliving the experience my be an emotional drain on
him but I think very valuable to the rest of us.

Regards,
Ray
--- Jon Wallace <jon@psubs.org> wrote:

> 
> Hello Psubbers,
> 
> I have made contact with one of the people involved
> in the Seaker-100
> incident which occured in April 1990, in Michigan. 
> Please see
> http://www.psubs.org/accidents for detailed info if
> you are not familiar
> with this incident.
> 
> This gentleman has expressed interest in joining us
> at the convention
> and either speaking at the seminar, or providing the
> opportunity for
> us to ask questions of him.  He did however express
> concern as to how
> he would be received by our group considering the
> sub suffered a
> catastrophic failure that claimed the life of the
> other person on board.
> 
> I told him that he offered a unique opportunity to
> provide first hand
> knowledge of being involved in such an incident, and
> his experience would
> offer the rest of us an ability to discuss escape
> procedures from the
> perspective of a real world incident instead of
> merely hypotheticals and
> test simulations.  I also told him we would not be
> there to criticize
> in hindsight, but learn from their experiences so
> could better our own.
> 
> I have also invited the family of the non-survivor
> to the convention
> although I don't expect them to accept due to travel
> and scheduling
> issues.
> 
> I will keep you informed about this potential
> speaker.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
>
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