Underwater is good. We worked the Gulf of Suez over by the Sinai and the big Egyptian oil base down in the Red Sea before moving on to the Oman and Persian Gulf. We had a whale of a time for a year, but moving on was what we did, too, and so move on we did.
Vance
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim <abyssalobsession@gmail.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Sat, Oct 10, 2009 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Permission to come aboard
Well, fortunately I'm in the "relatively" liberal area of Jeddah. Not a military man though; I'm a civilian flight instructor. Since I've been here I finally obtained my dive certification and actually have had quite a lot of fun on the Red Sea. I will miss it a little bit, but time to move on to greener pastures. Other than my time spent underwater, it has actually been an incredibly boring year.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:07 AM,
<vbra676539@aol.com> wrote:
Well, Saudi sure ain't Kansas. It isn't even Arkansas. How are things in Riyadh? The last time I was there, guys with submachine guns followed me everwhere but the head (and stood at the door while I was in there). They told me cameras weren't allowed and to take all that stuff off the submarine (PC-8). It took some convincing to convince the unconvincable that we were THERE for camera work, and the PC-8 itself was a camera housing with motors. Nervous folks, those.
Currently living/working in Saudi Arabia, but will be back home in Arkansas soon to return to college.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:29 AM,
<Recon1st@aol.com> wrote:
Welcome to our band of merry men. Where you calling home.
Dean
Greetings fellow deep water dwellers. Long time reader of the list archive and dreamer of my future projects. After so long, I have finally joined the list discussion and plan on membership with psubs.org. I have learned so much from the group, and still have much more to learn in order to witness the fruition of my dream. I look forward to getting to know you all and being able to contribute as much as I can. My project is currently no further than the drawing board, and will probably be there until I'm out of college (Newly declared electrical engineering major, but maybe I can come up with a few gadgets for you all in the time to come), but will be trying to get off the boards as soon as possible.!
Looking forward to a long and productive correspondence,
James Yarbrough