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I have volunteered to facilitate the new session on
developing a standardized PSUBS Ops Manual that could be easily adopted for the
particular needs of individual PSUBS. While conducting research so I would
be prepared for this session, looked around the web for someone else’s Ops
Manual to no avail. Could find Users Manuals for various research subs
but this was not what was needed. Emailed Vance and he pointed me to
further research sub manuals but again these were User Manuals. Then I remember
that I had a copy of Prizlaff’s international Safety Standard
Guidelines for the Operation of Tourist Submersibles on my bookshelf.
This has a 100+ pages of large-print, boilerplate operation manual that is formatted
for tourist subs which I can definitely copy for handouts prior to the session
so attendees can become familiar with the material. Hopefully I can also
OCR (convert it into text) so that we can wordsmith it into a PSUBS Ops Manual.
Jon & Ray could then take this finished boilerplate and adopt it to the
needs of managing subs in the water at future conferences. Questions: 1.
Are there any PSUBS members who are already familiar
with this text? 2.
Other than just attending the session, who might be
interested in editing a section of the Tourist Submersibles manual for
PSUBS ops? This could include those that will not be at the Conference. 3.
Are there members that would be interested in the final
product? 4.
What else do we need to do? R/Jay |