[PSUBS-MAILIST] Looking for Bruce Davies

[toolroomtrustee@aol.com]

In my working life as an oceanographic technician on NOAA Ship 
DISCOVERER I started coming in contact with a government technican 
named Bruce davies who worked for PMEL out at the NOAA base at Sand 
Point in North Seattle. Bruce was interested in small submarines and 
had two of them, one was made from a large steel sphere previously used 
to support antitorpedo nets and the other was a fiberglass one person 
rig that had a clear plastic dome as hatch and conning tower.

The sub made from the steel sphere had apparently been made by a guy 
and his son up in Edmonds WA. Bruce used it to inspect some pilings for 
the floating bridge running across entrance to Hood Canal. The one 
person sub he used in Lake Washington. I went with him one Saturday 
morning to help him launch it from a trailer at a boat ramp. Being part 
of the crew was fun, many people were around and I felt I could have 
done autographs for them. Bruce did go down in the sub and come back 
and then gave me a chance to use it. I'd made some notes but when I was 
getting in it, my foot knocked one of the dome latches loose and so it 
wasn't safe to dive. Maybe a fortunate accident??

Anyway, I haven't seen him for twenty odd years now. I wonder if any in 
our community had seen or heard of Bruce Davies of late?

Tia
Larry Murray



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