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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuytco in ventura

Hi, Brian
 
The work on the platforms is an annual rock-fish study that has been going on for years. Your can google biologist Milton Love and the 'Love-lab' (yeah, I know . . ) and it should describe the program. Milton's a great guy and absolutely passionate about the sustainability of Californis's groundfish. Perhaps you can check the lab out if it's in your backyard.
    Essentially, the platforms act as a well-established artificial reef and part of the controversy is whether or not they should removed in their entirety when depleted or taken off at a level where they are not a menace to navigation but still provide the majority of fish habitat. Still others say they platform structureshould stay (once the production hardware has been removed) as fixed navigational beacons, weather ships, and aquaculture bases . . .and so on.
Phil
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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuytco in ventura

Hi Phil,
               I have to say it was one of the great thrills of my life getting to meet and talk to you when psubs was up there in Vancouver !  Hearing you talk about the possibility of using the thermal vents to power an undersea habitat really got the juices flowing for me to continue onward with my sub !   Even though I only get to work on it in spurts ( slowly but surely !)
 
  I got to the Neemo web site, very interesting, looks like the habitat Aquarius has been down there a while !  Needs a paint job, at least on the outside anyway. 
 
  Can you tell us what the NOAA and UCSB projects were about.   Down at the boat yard they seemed to indicate that it had something to do with the habitat around the oil rigs.  It seems like there is an element in the coastal commission who are very hostile to the idea of eventually converting the oil rigs into artificial reefs.  Just wondering if they are gathering info for or against.
 
     Even though the natural oil seeps off of UCSB add about 200 barrels of oil per day the oil companies seemed to get blamed for it.   There's some real diametrically opposed factions here in the Ventura - Santa Barbara area.  The Fish and Game department is at war with the fishermen as well, closing more areas every year.
 
Cheers,
 
Brian

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Phil Nuytten <phil@philnuytten.com> wrote:
Hi, Brian
Yeah, we had a couple of DW's and a dual DW in Ventura - the red dual DW was out on two separate contracts for NOAA and UCSB-Fisheries. The singles were on their way to Cape Canaveral for a NASA contract doing asteroid drilling analog simulations at the Aquarius habitat (the site was at Key Largo but we had to load the United Space Alliance vessel 'Liberty Star' at the cape). The project very successful but was cut short by a pending hurricane - there were a number of astronauts in sat in the habitat and there was a serious concern that the Hurricane could hit before they could finish the decom required to return to the surface. It made a lot of newspapers in the US and Canada. There are some great underwater shots on 'Flickr' - go to:
 
 
It's called 'NEEMO 15 - website'
 
Sure hope this opens for you guys - it's worth seeing!
Regards
Phil
 
P.S. the Ventura/Canaveral sub crews are on their way to New York tonight to start diving with the  Nuytco Newtsuit crew 700 feet under the city - in the drinking water aqueduct system - our third trip there this year. Ah, the life of a Newtroid is not a dull one!
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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuytco in ventura

Guess I missed Nuytco research at Ventura Harbor recently.  Heard they were looking at oil rig habitats and also had a project with UCSB.  Saw some pictures at the boat yard of a couple of Deep Workers and another red sub that looked like a double Deep Worker.  Need to have a nuytco in town alert system !
 
Brian Cox