<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Looks great!<div><br></div><div>How do we sign up to volunteer in the future?</div><div>Would love to pitch in for subsequent events…</div><div><br></div><div>John<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 23, 2023, at 15:12, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>A small group of PSUBS members just returned from diving R300 and Shackleton on an InnerspaceScience.org expedition to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. It was Cliff and myself with our subs, Ian Roxborough and Steve McQueen as surface operations coordinators, and my son Trevor as swimmer and safety diver. Cliff came with his friend Kevin Hicks, who although not a sub guy had the mechanical skills and sense of humor to be an ideal crewmember. </div><div><br></div><div>We were hosted by Central Michigan University, which has a biological research station on the island. They had two science objectives. R300 did a transect with a data sonde attached, while Shackleton searched for lake trout spawning grounds. It was four full days of diving. Personally, I found the most interesting to be a dive on a submerged island covered in four thousand year old tree stumps.</div><div><br></div><div><div>It went really smoothly, the team got better with every dive and there were zero incidents or emergencies. We carried many observers from CMU, from the director to students, and on the fifth and final day the subs became exhibits at CMU's annual open house. We must have had easily a hundred kids come aboard the subs that day. </div><div><br></div><div>Here are some links: </div></div><div><br></div><div><div id="gmail-:3zz" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-:400" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><a href="https://youtu.be/F9Nfs0ArsDY" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/F9Nfs0ArsDY</a><br><br><a href="https://vimeo.com/847509117" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/847509117</a><br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_aPbA2_jI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_aPbA2_jI</a><br><br><a href="https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/07/private-submersibles-join-lake-michigan-research-on-beaver-island.html?utm_campaign=mlive_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/07/private-submersibles-join-lake-michigan-research-on-beaver-island.html?utm_campaign=mlive_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter</a></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div></div><div class="gmail-hq gmail-gt gmail-a10" id="gmail-:7cj" style="font-size:0.875rem;margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alec</div></div>
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