[PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Intervention Convension

[Jon Wallace]

Not an intentional slight, I assumed he knew you'd be there.  I think we 
talked about this in the Keys back in October but maybe I'm thinking of 
someone else.

Phil draws a heavy crowd so you may want to get there early for a good 
seat.


On 1/23/2014 9:58 PM, Phil Nuytten wrote:
> 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
>

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