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6 January 2006, 08:51 AM | #31 |
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I wear the Daytona a lot, especially to court and when I need to keep track of my billable hours outside the office.
I wore two watches on the Titanic dive because we were constantly changing tapes on the inside and outside cameras, and the tapes have different durations. I also needed a reliable timer for navigation, and I needed to keep track of Mission Elapsed Time (MEL). BTW, my nine year old son has swiped my '66 5513 Sub. He likes Daddy's "James Bond" watch.
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Dave, I give you credit, Ed uses a big digital wall clock in plain sight of his cleints. It doesn't have a make or brand, just dollar signs all over it.
I knew you were gonna give your boy the sub, I did not think it would be for fourth grade graduation, LOL!!
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Taken on Christmas morning. Note the left wrist.
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Handsome young lad you got there, David. Must take after BOTH his parents!!
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I really liked this thread. The pics are not up at explorer consulting any more. :-(
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Yes they are:
http://www.explorerconsulting.com/hi...eltitanic.html You scared me for a second. I thought I had not paid my bill for the web site. Thanks for updating the link. I had not checked my own site in a while. This was a great expedition, which resulted in a lousy TV show. Additionally, two members of the expedition are recently deceased. This brings back memories.
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Thanks for the link. You have a fan out there and I wanted to share the pics!
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Great shots, David. That's an exciting and interesting life you are leading.
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No problem. You're landlocked. so enjoy the water shots.
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More of our ColdWar history revealed...
London Times May 24, 2008 Titanic Search Was Cover For Secret Cold War Subs Mission By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion. Both of the United States Navy vessels sank during the 1960s, killing more than 200 men and giving rise to fears that at least one of them, Scorpion, had been sunk by the USSR. Dr Ballard, an oceanographer, has admitted that he located and inspected the wrecks for the US Navy in top secret missions before he was allowed to search for the Titanic. Only once he had used his new underwater robot craft to map the submarine wreck sites was he able to use it to crisscross the North Atlantic seabed to pinpoint the last resting place of the luxury liner. It meant he had only 12 days to find the Titanic. 'I couldn't tell anybody,' he said. 'There was a lot of pressure on me. It was a secret mission. I felt it was a fair exchange for getting a chance to look for theTitanic. 'We handed the data to the experts. They never told us what they concluded - our job was to collect the data. I can only talk about it now because it has been declassified.' Dr Ballard said what he had seen during the inspection of the wrecks gave him the idea of finding a trail of debris that would lead to the main sections of theTitanic. Thresher, had imploded deep beneath the surface and had broken up into thousands of pieces and Scorpion was almost as completely destroyed. 'It was as though it had been put through a shredding machine. There was a long debris trail.' Dr Ballard developed a robotic submarine craft in the early 1980s and approached the US Navy in 1982 for funding to search for the Titanic, which sank in 1912 with the loss of 1,500 lives after hitting an iceberg. He was told that the military were not willing to spend a fortune on locating the liner, but they did want to know what had happened to their submarines.The military were anxious to know how the nuclear reactors had been affected by being submerged for so long. During the 1980s the nuclear submarine fleet was reduced after the Salt II (strategic arms limitation talks) agreement and one option was to sink unwanted reactors at sea. Dr Ballard said that samples taken from the reactor sections of both submarines showed that there was little risk to the environment from radioactivity. The oceanographer was given the funding to embark on two expeditions, one to find the wreck of Thresher in 1984 off the eastern coast of the US and another to find Scorpion in the eastern Atlantic. Thresher , the US Navy's most advanced attack submarine at the time, sank with all her 129 crew in April 1963 while undergoing seaworthiness tests after dockyard repairs. A surface ship, Skylark , was in contact when the submarine's crew reported that a high-pressure pipe supplying the nuclear reactor with cooling water had blown. The accident 1,000ft down, caused the vessel to lose power. It then sank so deep that the pressure hull imploded. Scorpion disappeared with 99 crew in 1968, and there had been speculation that it was sunk by Soviet forces. Dr Ballard's visual examination of the wreck site showed that the most likely cause of its destruction was being hit by a rogue torpedo that it had fired itself. |
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This story was told almost 10 years ago in a documentary that aired on UK Channel 4. I think the name was "The Battle for Titanic." The Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Admiral John Lehman, was interviewed and he let the cat out of the bag.
There are a lot more of these "back stories" regarding the Titanic. They could fill several books.
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David,
Thanks for the link. I enjoy the expeditions and the behind the scenes stories you have told me Sean
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Some of the best stories are absolutely unbelievable. Like the story of one expedition I was on, which was plagued by hurricanes, food poisoning, a mutiny, a corporate takeover back on land, an injunction, bad press, one suicide attempt and an alleged rape. I resigned in the middle of it, before the lawsuits began in earnest.
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There is a book coming out this fall about my last expedition in 2005. I must admit this is causing me some angst. It is very possible the book will be a puff piece for certain members of the expedition, rather than a true account what happened on the expedition. It always worries me when somebody who wasn't there writes a book based on people's memories after the fact. I have cooperated with the author to some extent by answering his questions and providing documents to prove and/or corroborate certain facts, but the questions themselves have really worried me. The focus seems to be on selling the sizzle instead of the steak.
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