The highlight of our excursion was, at least for me, going down into the
original mini-sub and getting a feel for what it must have been like to
use it. That thing is just downright scary to be inside, as it is just
basically an empty shell filled with tubes, tanks, wires, and a flat
board to lie on to steer while looking through a very small, thick,
round piece of glass. Very, very rudimentary.

I took a bunch of pics inside and out, and if I ever find any of that
stuff I'll post them if there's a way to transfer them to digital.


A scanner would work well to convert them to jpg's. Then you could
post them to
alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean, where some of us post pics every
now and then.

-- John H. "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible
and necessary to resolve it." Rene Descartes

I might add, the operation of the mini-sub was through a bunch of very
crude and ugly plumbing and small hand valves. No sophisticated steering
or dive apparatus on that thing. BTW, the Calypso's ship's bell had the
original name of the ship when it was commissioned as a British navy
ship, not the calypso (built in Bath, Maine, I believe)