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[Fwd: Re: Diving Saucer]

Remember I posted about the Cousteau Diving saucer at the National Geographic Explorer's 
Hall in Washington?

Well!!!!  After a letter, e-mails, FAX's and telephone calls abou the possibility of 
having a closer look than from behind a thick rope, I gave up at the NGS ignoring of my 
questions.

I sent an e-mail to the Cousteau Society, hoping to find the conditions under which the 
saucer was exhibited.  Attached is their reply.

It's quite funny actually.

-- 
Martin Sanderse
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http://www.interlog.com/~sanderse

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>The Cousteau Society wrote:
>> SNIP
>
>> The Society's diving saucer has not been used in a number of years.  It is
>> still operational but there is no room aboard our windship "Alcyone" to
>> store it during expeditions.  It is currently housed in France and not
>> accessible to the public.  To learn more about the diving saucer, there is
>> an excellent book you should be able to find in most major libraries or
>> possibly the Government Printing Office titled  "Manned Submersibles" by R.
>> Frank Busby, Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, 1976.
>
>Yes thank you, I own this book.  (and many others)
>
>There is however, a Cousteau Diving Saucer at the Explorer's Hall National
>Geographic
>Museum.
>
>Thanks
>
December 10, 1998

Dear Mr. Sanderse:

The  SP 350 Soucoupe that hangs from the ceiling at the Explorer's Hall
National Geographic Museum is a scale model diving saucer, not a real one.

Sincerely,

Emmett K. Jennings
Membership Services



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