<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>As a side note, I just this week started writing a book about myis-adventures. If I live long enough to finish it, you guys will be the first to know.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On May 9, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Joe Perkel via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Very cool Vance! Nice things you've done!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I joined the Navy for some adventure, ...went to Tennessee and Texas!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0,
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<div><font class="yiv2248101581Apple-style-span" size="3">That's the gas flare for the Frigg Field in the background, which was in the North Sea oil patch somewhere between the Shetland Islands and the halfway point to Norway. Water depths on that side ran in the 350 to 450 foot range. Sometimes a little less, but rarely more until you got closer to Scandihoovia.</font></div>
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<div><font class="yiv2248101581Apple-style-span" size="3">We did all the initial bottom surveys prior to platform deliveries, then made lots of installation inspections, insurance videos, engineering verifications, and so on. Plus diver lockout support for pipeline hook-ups and like that. Later on, we went back to clear all the exploratory well heads with explosives, which was somewhere between tedious and oh shit, mostly. <br clear="none">
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<div><font class="yiv2248101581Apple-style-span" size="3">The motion you see or suspect is a little exaggerated, but not unexpected at that point in the launch. We used two pairs of fifty-thousand pound constant tension winches to control side motion and the leverage is at its worst way out at the drop point. By the way, anyone know how I can tell this is a launch?</font></div>
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Looks like you could get quite a rough ride launching and recovery in those conditions.<br clear="none">
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<div><font size="3">Below is a war-ready PC-12 headed down into the
dark-wet-cold. It might even be me in the conning tower, as I had 04 and/or 05
(depending on assignment) for a season and worked Frigg pretty often. I can tell
it's one of the later boats because the manipulators are mounted low and there
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