<div dir="ltr">Hi Ian, <div><br></div><div>I believe Dave Colombo's VAST is currently registered in California. Also, although it was a few years ago, I think Shanee Stopnizky had S101 and Fangtooth registered there as part of her "community submersibles" project. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alec</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM irox 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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1">My experience is that CA DMV will make up rules (and not show them to you) to get out of registering a personal/recreational submersible.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1">If any body is successful registered a submersible in California (as a submersible, not as some other craft like PWC), please let us know. I feel once we have one registered one personal/recreational submersible it should pave the way (for no more excuses) registering others.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>Sent: Oct 11, 2024 10:20 AM<br>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Vessel Registration</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Very helpful, I have been thinking how the DMV would treat a personal submersible.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org</a>> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Friday, October 11, 2024 10:14 AM<br><strong>To:</strong> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Vessel Registration</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Attaching a circular of the website information in PDF format for those that may want to print it out or keep a local copy.</span></p>
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