<div dir="ltr">I can see an Annapolis convention as a mainly presentation convention, with a day to kick sub tires and if people want some next-to-the-dock dives. For those wanting to get more involved in dive operations, there should also be the possibility of tagging along in Maine or in the prep dives leading up to that, but those are different animals in that I don't think there would be time for presentations. For my part, Shackleton has given me a number of presentation topics I could contribute. And then there's also new one coming together right now. I'm mid way through building a manipulator arm based on Hank's design. Hank provided photos and advice, and I'm producing things like drawings and parts list, and trying to tweak things to make it wasy to build. This will become a PSUBS open source manipulator. <div><br></div><div>Best,<br>Alec<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:48 AM Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1917368065162996849WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK – I’m back home after two weeks of back to back traveling and trying to catch up on things.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">*<b>IF</b>* we could pull together something from this summer in the Annapolis, Maryland area, who would be interested? We’d need to find venue pretty quickly.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">As Alec mentioned, there are a number of submarines in our area, OTOH, many of us will also be busy with other things. Alex and crew getting that big sub out West ready to dive and then there’s a potential science trip up to Maine in last summer, early Fall. My wife is leading a trip to Israel late September/early October, but I’m basically around the rest of the year.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We had access to an amazing little quarry locally that would have been a hoot for dive day, but lost access to it when the County found it infested with Zebra mussels. Clean your gear kiddies. Now no one can use it. There’s another, larger and deeper quarry coming online this spring that might be a possibility, but it’s an unknown. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There’s access to the Chesapeake Bay, but the vis is pretty awful in the summer.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Brian</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.Tehom.net" target="_blank">www.Tehom.net</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>
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