[PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Intervention Convension

[Alan James]

Thanks for the info Phil,
look forward to hearing it at the conference.
Alan 


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 From: Phil Nuytten <phil at philnuytten.com>
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Intervention Convension
 


Jon . . ahem, ahem, (jes’ clearin’ ma throat) Nuytco hasalways been at the UI submersible track – year after year. 
This year we’ll be talking about our 2013 work surveying and videoing the WW2 
Normandy Invasion fleet, most of which is still underwater. This was for History 
Channel and will air this year – the 70th anniversary of Juneau,Omaha, Sword, 
etc. The shots of the Sherman tanks laying higgeldy piggeldy (sp?) all over the 
bottom are incredible. Jeff Heaton, Nuytco’s senior ops manager had the unusual 
pleasure of using ‘Aquarius’ to take down a 92 year old – survivor of the 
invasion who was last there in 1944 aboard a small submarine, two days before 
the invasion - to set lighting on the bottom to guide in the troop carriers (the 
original schedule called for a night landing) – the story of he and his crew 
lying doggo on the bottom for nearly two days offshore of the landing site as 
weather changes kept re-arranging the schedule – specially as they had to 
surface at night to get communication on the changing plans –  well, it’s 
quite a story!   
Phil
From: Jon Wallace 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:13 PM
To: Personal Submersibles General 
Discussion 
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Intervention 
Convension
 

I think others will agree, the majority of 
attendees are there for ROV related sessions.  I have only ever attended 
the manned vehicle sessions and never experienced an issue of not having a 
seat.  The convention center and session rooms are not small...we're not 
talking PSUBS size event here.  The technical session rooms have seats 
for...I'm guessing...200 people?  And there is plenty of "standing room" if 
all the seats were taken.  

ABS reps usually attend because they 
have discussions about proposed rule changes...can't recall the gentleman's name 
at the moment.  I don't think I've seen a sub manufacturer other than Will 
Kohnen (seamagine) whom is the coordinator of the manned vehicle sessions at the 
convention.

You'll have a good time there.  It's worth the trip and 
no doubt there should be some psubbers in attendance as 
well.

Jon


On 1/30/2014 3:38 PM, Alan James wrote:

Hi,
>I'm looking  at going to the U.I. New Orleans convention in 10 days  time, & in
>particular attending the underwater vehicle technical sessions.
>The registration fee entitles you to attend the technical sessions, so it  seems the numbers
>at each session aren't restricted. They had 2,450 attendees last year so I'm wondering whether
>I run the risk of missing out through lack of seats in  the session rooms. Any experience with  this 
>from others who have attended these sessions? Also are  ABS or submersible manufacturers 
>represented there?
>Have tried calling U.I. a couple of times but haven't  been lucky.
>Thanks for the heads up on the conference  Douglas.
>Hank, from G.L. rules...The CO2 pressure needs to be kept below 0.01 bar
>Alan
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