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In a message dated 4/29/2010 8:27:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
vbra676539@aol.com writes:
Yes, it's sad to see an accident like this. The loss of workers lives and
now a big mess to clean up.
It's odd the news media hasn't had a lot of pictures to show us like when
the floating oil rig sank. Maybe there will be more pictures available later.
The ROV's they have available are pretty interesting. I've seen a few of
the big "worker" ROV's and there are a lot of tools they can deploy. Like Vance
said, it must be a big mess down there too or it would have been repaired
already. There aren't many subs available that can get to 5,000 feet and ROV's
are what all the deep ocean outfits are using now. I wish them good luck in this
big mess.
I heard yesterday that approval was received for building a wind farm off
the coast of Chesapeak Bay at 5 miles off shore. The water must be pretty
deep out there too. Something like 1400 turbines are planned just in that one
location with several more locations being considered. I wonder if they need any
private submarines for survey work or other tasks. That could be fun for a sub
owner.
You'd probably need to be ABS certified and insured etc. Maybe
Hugh could bring out Comsub and get some work there. That's a pretty nice
boat with room and capacity for serious work. I wonder how much it costs to hire
a submarine and pilot. Lots I'll bet.
Frank D.
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