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Boating Jeapordy
You all know how it is played. I will start.A modified mine sweeper used for oceanographic research starting in 1950 by
an extraordinary man born in France in 1910. |
Jan 7
2006
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| post >them to
> alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean, where some of us post pics every
>now and then.
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>-- John H. "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible
>and necessary to resolve it." Rene Descartes I might add, the operation of the mini-sub was through a bunch of very
crude and ugly plumbing and small hand valves. No sophisticated steering
or dive apparatus on that thing. BTW, the Calypso's ship's bell had the
original name of the ship when it was commissioned as a British navy
ship, not the calypso (built in Bath, Maine, I believe) |
NewsHog
Jan 8
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| A tragic end to a beautiful vessel.
Jim C. |
Jim
Jan 8
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| The Calypso will be remembered by many of us who loved the magic of
it's voyages. Jim C. |
Jim
Jan 8
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| Too bad the Calypso was left to die. I was aboard her in the mid 1980's
when she was in Miami for a refit following, I believe, a return from
Cuba. The Engineer was kind enough to allow me and my friend to have
access to every part of the ship except Cousteau's cabin (except to look
in through the window). The ship was surprisingly small, as it always
looked so much larger on TV to me as a kid. The highlight of our excursion was, at least for me, going down into the
original mini-sub and getting a feel for what it must have been like to
use it. That thing is just downright scary to be inside, as it is just
basically an empty shell filled with tubes, tanks, wires, and a flat
board to lie on to steer while looking through a very small, thick,
round piece of glass. Very, very rudimentary. I took a bunch of pics inside and out, and if I ever find any of that
stuff I'll post them if there's a way to transfer them to digital. |
NewsHog
Jan 8
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| Here are some pictures of her in an obvious state of abandonment. http://lpce.com/michelet/calypso/index.php http://www.smmlonline.com/reference/walkabouts/calypso/calypso.html |
Jan 8
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| A scanner would work well to convert them to jpg's. Then you could post them to
alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean, where some of us post pics every now and then.
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JohnH
Jan 8
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| What was the Calypso, Alex? --
Skipper |
Skipper
Jan 7
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| What is "Calypso" Commodore Joe Redcloud |
Commodore
Jan 7
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| This vessel sank in January 1996 after being accidentally holed in a
Singapore shipyard by a barge. Now its superstructure riddled with rust
and its timbers rotten, languishes unrecognized and all but
unrecognizable condition in the dock of La Rochelle's maritime museum in
western France. She is too rotted to even tow and scuttle. --
Skipper |
Skipper
Jan 7
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