[PSUBS-MAILIST] Beaver Island expedition

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Hello Friends,

A small group of PSUBS members just returned from diving R300 and
Shackleton on an InnerspaceScience.org expedition to Beaver Island in Lake
Michigan. It was Cliff and myself with our subs, Ian Roxborough and Steve
McQueen as surface operations coordinators, and my son Trevor as swimmer
and safety diver. Cliff came with his friend Kevin Hicks, who although not
a sub guy had the mechanical skills and sense of humor to be an ideal
crewmember.

We were hosted by Central Michigan University, which has a biological
research station on the island. They had two science objectives. R300 did a
transect with a data sonde attached, while Shackleton searched for lake
trout spawning grounds. It was four full days of diving. Personally, I
found the most interesting to be a dive on a submerged island covered in
four thousand year old tree stumps.

It went really smoothly, the team got better with every dive and there were
zero incidents or emergencies. We carried many observers from CMU, from the
director to students, and on the fifth and final day the subs became
exhibits at CMU's annual open house. We must have had easily a hundred kids
come aboard the subs that day.

Here are some links:

https://youtu.be/F9Nfs0ArsDY

https://vimeo.com/847509117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_aPbA2_jI

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/07/private-submersibles-join-lake-michigan-research-on-beaver-island.html?utm_campaign=mlive_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Best,
Alec
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