"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:49:20 GMT, "Don White"
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make that...
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/

Why does Canada need a submarine fleet?

Take care.

Tom

Enforce fishing regulations, intercept smugglers etc. We do have a long
coastline..east, west and arctic. The US navy encouraged us also. Seems
they wanted to practice their equipment on very quiet diesel/electrics.

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:55:26 GMT, "Don White"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:49:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


make that...
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/

Why does Canada need a submarine fleet?

Enforce fishing regulations, intercept smugglers etc. We do have a long
coastline..east, west and arctic. The US navy encouraged us also. Seems
they wanted to practice their equipment on very quiet diesel/electrics.

Ah - now that makes some sense. There are a bunch of those little
critters around.

I'm sorry that one of the crew died, but as I was reading that article
I parsed the Captain's name as Luc Picard. :)

Man, I need to get a life.

Later,

Tom

"Don White" wrote in message ...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:49:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


make that...
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/

Why does Canada need a submarine fleet?

Take care.

Tom

Enforce fishing regulations, intercept smugglers etc. We do have a long
coastline..east, west and arctic. The US navy encouraged us also. Seems
they wanted to practice their equipment on very quiet diesel/electrics.


Those smugglers are probably already scared to death to be chased down
(or should we say "floated down") by these subs! HAHAHAHAHA


Matt

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:49:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


make that...
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/

Why does Canada need a submarine fleet?


Easy .. after having only spent 1 Billion (so far) on a gun registry
... they realized the tax payer still had money which can be wasted on
something same retarded....

One should put these people who make these decissions IN these subs
and let them sail away ...

Matt

"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.

http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
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Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.

Nawww. Russian troops always had a funny glow about them after getting off
a 6 month stint aboard one of their nuclear subs.

"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
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Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.



Maybe Canada should have been more on top of things, such as technical, QA
and QC specifications as well as acceptance testing.

"John Smith" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.

http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
6

Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.



Maybe Canada should have been more on top of things, such as technical, QA
and QC specifications as well as acceptance testing.

We got suckered by a low ball offer...but now the costs of updating to
Canadian standards are adding up.

"Don White" wrote in message ...
"John Smith" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.

http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
6

Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.



Maybe Canada should have been more on top of things, such as technical, QA
and QC specifications as well as acceptance testing.

We got suckered by a low ball offer...but now the costs of updating to
Canadian standards are adding up.

I'd say someone pocketed a lot of money for approving that deal ...

and they failed to upgrade to important canadian standards like:

1. Motor runs
2. Doesnt self ignite

Matt

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:01:13 +0000, Don White wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.

http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
6

Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.



Maybe Canada should have been more on top of things, such as technical, QA
and QC specifications as well as acceptance testing.

We got suckered by a low ball offer...but now the costs of updating to
Canadian standards are adding up.

Hey, c'mon over the West Coast - we have some great aluminum ferries to
sell you, cheap! (actually, we sold them for about $1 to the original
builder, who flipped them to another country for millions. I'm not making
this up...)

Maybe we could have refitted them with some "ballast" (I suggest the
people who suggested the idea in the first place) and convert them to subs...

Lloyd

"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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Hey, c'mon over the West Coast - we have some great aluminum ferries to
sell you, cheap! (actually, we sold them for about $1 to the original
builder, who flipped them to another country for millions. I'm not making
this up...)

Maybe we could have refitted them with some "ballast" (I suggest the
people who suggested the idea in the first place) and convert them to
subs...


Hey Lloyd. We sent one of the subs over your way...HMCS Victoria, I believe.
Keep an eye out for it. You might get a chance to claim salvage if the crew
abandons her on the high seas..