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Hi All,
I'm calling out a second time for sub
owners, sub builders and anyone that knows the location of a
P-sub.
You may remember, I am trying to compile a list of
personal subs. The main reason for the list was to locate subs, and
people who could help with specific questions about them. Also, I am
doing some research into standards for personal sub rescue. When I first
started these two ventures, they weren't connected, but that's
changing.
After talking to rescue people from several
different agencies, I'm surprised at how alone we are when diving in a
sub. Those guys have almost no idea personal subs even
exist, much less, how to run a rescue operation for one.
The first thing they all ask is "how many of you
are there?" As in everything of this sort, the more personal
subs there are, the more they take it seriously that they may encounter a rescue
involving one of us. The more they realize this, the more emphasis
they will put on being prepared to do such a task, if called on.
So, for our collective good, please send the
following information to me and I will compile it.
*Sub type or description
*Diving depth
*Location (country, state and or
city)
*Owner
*Description of subs condition (half
built, working, can dive with some repair, just a rusting flower
box)
*How to contact you
*Would you be
willing to answer questions about construction or diving?
*Anything else you feel useful to note about the
sub or yourself.
Either reply as a return to this posting or to me
off list at jumachine@comcast.net
After chatting with the director of a
national American dive agency for a while he said "I have to tell you, when
I got the message to contact you about rescue operations involving people with
personal submarines, my first thought was, what kind of nut am I going to be
talking to with this one."
We talked for a while and I got him browsing
the Psubs website during the later part of our conversation. As we were hanging up, his parting words
were, "I thought as rescuers we had everything covered but I've
learned with your call, you guys are real and out there. As a rescue
organization, we need to be prepared to rescue you if we're ever
called on to do so."
Interesting! I'm glad we had our chat before
they get called on to haul me and my hunk of steel up form the
deep!
Dan H.
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