<div dir="ltr">Great story. I've been lucky to always find these guys courteous, but the problem is they have no idea how to treat us so they get a bit scared. Now they know you, and have seen that you went for an outing with nothing bad coming of it, I suspect you won't have any issues with them in the future. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Alec, No, not exactly, this was a harbor patrol test ! Really my main goal for that day was to see how they would ultimately treat me. It started off really badly. This time before we even had the sub in the water they came speeding into the launch ramp area in the Harbor Patrol vehicle and were in my face before I even knew what happened. And this time it wasn't just an officer it was the actual Harbor Master himself ! He basically read me the riot act, like what do I think I'm doing, and stressed the need to check with them before launching a submarine. So at that point I pretty much thought I was doomed. I explained to him that it's basically just a boat and I had no intention of submerging in his harbor. He was extremely worried that my beast was going to sink at the harbor entrance and he would be called up before the Governor ! So after a while he started asking if I had all the things I needed to have for a vessel, like radio, fire extinguisher, life jacket, registration. I was then handing him down and showing him all these items. Then an amazing thing happened, he got a big smile on his face and said , "well ok go ahead then" ! I also informed him that I had a support boat . So we proceeded to launch her off the trailer. He and another officer hung around for about a half an hour and then they just left and said good luck ! I'm like " he's just leaving ! " </font></font><div><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Brian</font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font><br><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">--- <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a> wrote:</span><br><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">From: Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Still pics</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:37:00 -0400</span><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Congrats Brian! I take it this was just a surface run test? <div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alec</div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div>On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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