Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Children's author needs expert advice

["Andrew Goldstein" <ag@desertstar.com>]

Jens, and all,


Regarding "Secrets of the Submarine",  no need to scan this Google has already done it for you:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=Jxl0GDw78gsC&dq=The+Secrets+of+the+Submarine+Author:+Marley+Fotheringham+Hay&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=NQ9hFF1GiG&sig=khBqHgvVdEy_vjpi51om2YNKWUs&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA34-IA2,M1

You can even download a pdf as the copyright has expired and the book is public domain.

Now if somebody could just get google to scan all the old naval underwater center & nsrdc technical papers  ;)
A busby pdf would be nice as well...

-a



-----Original message-----
From: "Jens Laland" laland@artematrix.org
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:26:49 -0700
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Children's author needs expert advice

> Hi Guys!
> 
> I don't know if the following quote was meant to be a comment similar to
> mine, or not...
> 
> ** Most farms have wire welders and 55 gal barrels laying around.?
> **
> ** Maybe your kid exists in real life:
> ** http://ralph.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=598774
> 
> ... but we just had a serious discussion on how PSUBS as a group ought to
> behave in relation to unsafe (or plain suicidal) projects, and to what
> effects such involvement could have on the public, the authorities, and
> any new wannabee-submariner, etc, etc.
> 
> Yes, I am thinking about the industrious poor chinaman - and how his
> project was handled and commented upon in this forum.
> 
> My concern is very much this:
> 
> Could a children's book about an 8 to 12 year old boy building his own
> functional 1 atm. submarine become a similar irresponsible, hazardious
> 55-gallon type of project that PSUBS should rather not be assosiated with?
> 
> Or? If we are going to help Barbara she should first be told something
> about tank systems and stability, and that well before we prop her mind
> full of "feasible" ideas.
> 
> Maybe she could start reading the end of chapter 2 [page 19 thru to page
> 29] of Marley F. Hay's book: "Secrets of the Submarine".
> 
> Ref.: http://www.psubs.org/book.html#b16
> 
> Barbara, if you have problem getting a copy, I would happily mail over a
> scan of the said pages.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jens Laland
> 
> 
> 
> 
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