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Goodonya Brent.
Clive.
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:43 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] FW: Karl
Stanley's Deep Sea Exploration in Roatan
For those that wish to send a email and/or snail mail
letter to Honduras Institute of Tourism, here is what I wrote to give you some
ideas and/or see what I missed that you can add to yours.
Brent
From: brenthartwig@hotmail.com
To: hondurastourism@aol.com; tourisminfo@iht.hn
Subject: Karl
Stanley's Deep Sea Exploration in Roatan
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:42:31
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To who it may
concern,
I am a explorer and
small submarine enthusiast that has been watching a young man by the name Karl
Stanley pursue his dreams of exploring the deep waters off Roatan for a number
of years. He built a very deep diving submarine for the location he has been
using it in Roatan. Most deep places in the ocean are many miles from
shore and have poor visibility and heavy currents. So Roatan is ideal for the
submarine Idabel to operate. There is only one other deep diving submarine
operation in the world that will take the public down to see what most never
will see. The things that Karl and his passengers see are amazing and many
times totally new to science.
I believe that the Honduran
Government should prize this unique explorer and his enthusiasm to offer an
invaluable tourist attraction and scientific exploration to the world. He has
worked extremely hard to get his submarine built and operating to
do this.
There is
some unfortunate political issues preventing Karl from acquiring his operating
license in Roatan. It seems to me that the Vice Mayor Delzie Rosales
conflict of interest in preventing Karl from acquiring his permit because
she wants to park her yacht were he has had his submarine for years in
front of his families property, is wrong, and bad for your
tourism.
I respectfully
ask that you look into this matter, and promote this healthy part of your
marine tourism.
You will find
more information about Karl's submarine operation at his professional
website here.
http://www.stanleysubmarines.com/welcome/index.php
Karl
has a new, very professional documentary coming out very soon, called A View
From Below. Once people see this film, many will likely want to come to Roatan
to visit and submerge with Karl. I'm aware that some people like the shock
value of talking about Karl's submarine as being homemade. But in truth a
number of very qualified professionals worked on the Idabel submarine, both
physically and on technical issues to make her a safe craft. I
know a lot of guys that have built very nice home built submarines. I have not
seen any of them heat treat there entire pressure hulls to stress relieve
them, like Karl did on his second submarine Idabel to better take hydrostatic
stresses. The submarine has proved it's metal by diving well over 1000
times.
http://www.rooftoppictures.com/aviewfrombelow/
Regards,
Brent
Hartwig
Priest River, Idaho,
USA
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