Re: Nuytco's DeepWorker

[Mary Kathleen Brewster-Barker <katavon@pacbell.net>]

New email address for me.  Richard Barker:    rbarker@cts.com  Please send
future sub emails to the above email address.  Thank you.

Phil Nuytten wrote:

> Hi, Steve:
>         Thank you for your compliment on the DeepWorker 2000 model/replica
> at National Geographic Headquarters - Washington, D.C.  As you know, it is
> located (or will be) in the Explorers Great Hall - home for so many years
> to a model of Cousteau's sub, the  diving saucer  'Denise' . . .pretty
> heady company!!  Coincidently, I've been working closely, recently, with
> Jean-Michel Cousteau to develop a 'signature' sub for his group 'Ocean
> Futures'. Nice guy, J-M;  smart as hell, absolutely dedicated to the
> oceans, and a great sense of  humor - that pretty much covers the bases, in
> my book!
>
>         It occurs to me that psubbers might like to follow along with the
> adventures of the intrepid little DeepWorkers as they truck around the
> country on the Sustainable Seas Expeditions (SSE)  Website:
> http://sustainableseas.noaa.gov/missions/missions.html  This is just one
> site of a number linked to SSE, but is a good place to start. The mission
> logs are pretty good and you can look back at the archives . .it tells what
> was happening on a day to day basis and is very much 'warts and all'   . .
> .you can tell when a scientist is ultra PO'd 'cause the sub " developed  a
> %$#$@!! ground-fault" and blew their dive! We have ( the imperial 'we')
> made over a hundred dives this year, and have another two and a half months
> left in the 1999 season ( Vance: if you're listening - we'll have a couple
> of DeepWorkers in Florida ,for SSE, at the same time as we have one other
> DeepWorker  in Boston. This will be in a few weeks or maybe sooner - call
> Catherine for schedule - if the Florida vessel is porting at night , we can
> probably arrange for you to kick the tires - let me know)  Sorry I didn't
> post this website sooner, I didn't think about it . .The site is kind of
> neat 'cause it updates every couple of days, so probably worth checking
> from time to time.
> Regards,
> Phil Nuytten