Re: Submarine Movie? or TV?

[shawl@torchlake.com (Jonathan Shawl)]

That's neat Gary.
How about it, can I coax you into the sub design project. I know we could use a
guy like you when it comes to electronics and other sub building knowledge.
After all you built one too.
Let me know if we can count on your input.

Jon
PS is the Red river Red? Is visibility about 1/2 inch?

protek@shreve.net wrote:

> Psubbers,
>     In regard to the Hunley, a confederate submarine that sunk a Union
> warship and was lost in the effort, few people know that it was not the
> only confederate submarine constructed.  Four subs were built in
> Shreveport, Louisiana at a confederate shipyard located at the mouth of
> Cross Bayou where it flows into the Red River.  Interestingly enough they
> are still there.  When the yankees were approaching this shipyard they sunk
> them all in, or around, the mouth of the bayou to keep them from being used
> by the Union navy.  I did not know this until about 2 months ago when I was
> asked if I would be interested in an effort to raise them.  Another irony
> here is the fact that my sub, The Vindicator, is stored in my airplane
> hangar located about a mile from the sinking site.  And NO, I do not plan
> to put my sub in the Red River!!!
>
> Gary Boucher