Hi Michael and Guy, Chuck here: What I am about to relate is the honest truth: Way back when I was in high school I had a friend who was fascinated with 2 things: Submarines and pliesiosaurs (sp?). Anyway, he somehow got his hands on a surplus marker bouy, about four or five feet in diameter, and used it as the core of a home-made sub. He filled the bottom with concrete until he had an approximate neutral bouyancy, then built a superstructure resembling his favorite aquatic dinosaur. My friend (Vincent) was physically small in stature so fit in the "cabin" just fine. The sub was launched in a nearby reservoir and the details of that first voyage are lost to the mists of time, I do remember our ersatz Nemo cruising triumphantly, however the deep dark "sea" eventually claimed the plucky submersible. Something about a hatch not sealing properly, IIRC. To this day, the wreck remains in that same body of water, and is sometimes seen during times of low water. Vincent survived the scuttling, though we eventually lost touch. He could be anywhere now, from commmanding a nuclear sub for the US Navy, to working on a Europa ocean probe for NASA, to pearl diving off the coast of Japan. Really, I didn't make this up!
Quoting Michael Carnes <moogiebird@earthlink.net>:
Hey Guy, 'Scuse my ignorance, but I didn't know there was much in the way of wreck diving around here. There was plenty of it back in New England, between harbors and places like Lake Champlain. Were any of the larger bodies of water around here ever used for commerce? What's down there?
Michael
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