[PSUBS-MAILIST] Still pics

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Great story. I've been lucky to always find these guys courteous, but the
problem is they have no idea how to treat us so they get a bit scared. Now
they know you, and have seen that you went for an outing with nothing bad
coming of it, I suspect you won't have any issues with them in the future.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Alec,     No, not exactly,  this was a harbor patrol test !    Really my
> main goal for that day was to see how they would ultimately treat me.   It
> started off really badly.  This time before we even had the sub in the
> water they came speeding into the launch ramp area in the Harbor Patrol
> vehicle and were in my face before I even knew what happened.  And this
> time it wasn't just an officer it was the actual Harbor Master himself !
>  He basically read me the riot act, like what do I think I'm doing, and
> stressed the need to check with them before launching a submarine.  So at
> that point I pretty much thought I was doomed.  I explained to him that
> it's basically just a boat and I had no intention of submerging in his
> harbor.  He was extremely worried that my beast was going to sink at the
> harbor entrance and he would be called up before the Governor !   So after
> a while he started asking if I had all the things I needed to have for a
> vessel, like radio, fire extinguisher, life jacket, registration.  I was
> then handing him down and showing him all these items.  Then an amazing
> thing happened, he got a big smile on his face and said , "well ok go ahead
> then"  !   I also informed him that I had a support boat .  So we proceeded
> to launch her off the trailer.  He and another officer hung around for
> about a half an hour and then they just left and said good luck !   I'm
> like " he's just leaving ! "
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
>
> From: Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.
> org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Still pics
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:37:00 -0400
>
>
> Congrats Brian! I take it this was just a surface run test?
>
> Best,
> Alec
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
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