Hi,
Here are the 2005 PSUBS Award winners.
You may note that this year I chose some double winners. Pierre deserves recognition for making a successful submersible with some unique design features on a limited budget. I feel that is just as important as the awesome Kraka.
Ray and Jon are inseparable. Like twins? Without either of them there wouldn't be a PSUBS.
Award Categories
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The Kittredge Award
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For designing and building excellence in creating a whole and functional personal submersible.
Pierre Poulin - Big!
Peter Madsen - Kraka
The Busby Award
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For excellence in technical writing on personal submersibles designs, operations and applications.
Doug Jackson - Technical
content at http://www.submarineboat.com/
The Beach Award
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For non-technical writing that promotes personal submersibles to the general public.
Ray Keefer - PSUBS
Organization
Jon Wallace - PSUBS Organization
The Link Award
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For contributions to oceanographic research using personal submersibles.
Karl Stanley - Opened up depths to general public. Though not technically research it does happen in a personal submersible.
The Archimedes Award
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For innovative designing excellence of a specific piece of gear for use in personal submersibles that spreads knowledge through the group .
No winner.
For those who haven't seen past awards, go to http://www.psubs.org/awards/.
Regards,
Ray