2004 PSUBS Annual Report

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2004 PSUBS Annual Report
By Raymond Keefer
Saturday, August 21, 2004 Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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Contents

• Introduction
• Events
• Stats
• Site
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Report on the health and events of Personal
  Submersibles Organization, WWW.PSUBS.ORG or PSUBS
• Time spanning from the 2003 PSUBS Convention
  (Saturday, 16 August 2003) to the 2004 PSUBS
  Convention ( Saturday, 21, 2004)

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Events

• Chronological
• August 2003
• 2003 PSUBS Convention
• September 2003
• George William Kittredge offers his book I Found
  Israels Atom Bomb Factory to the PSUBS community
  free of charge. Eventually over 34 copies mailed
  out.
• October 2003
• Jorge Lourenço Jr. scanned R. Frank Busbys book
  Manned Submersibles
• November 2003
• Standards Committee formed up
• December 2003
• 2003 PSUBS Award Nominations

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Events (Continued)

• January 2004
• HANDBOOK OF ACRYLICS FOR SUBMERSIBLES, HYPERBARIC
  CHAMBERS AND AQUARIA by Jerry D. Stachiw became
  available back in print
• 2003 PSUBS Award winners announced

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Events (Continued)

• The Kittredge Award
• Recipiant Brent Shaw
• For his Drydivenz 3 person dry-ambient sub.

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Events (Continued)

• The Busby Award
• Recipiant Mark Ragan
• Hunley archeology work and book on subject.

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Events (Continued)

• The Link Award
• Recipiant Alec Smyth
• PLC Programmers Presentation, convention camera
  work and Steinke Hood distribution.

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Events (Continued)

• The Beach Award
• Recipiant Jorge Lourenco
• For his outstanding work on scanning Busby's
  Manned Submersibles.

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Events (Continued)

• February 2004
• Received request for a copy of the movie based on
  the Johnson-Sea-Link disaster by the
  granddaughter of Albert Stover, who died during
  that disaster. Mike Caudle bought the movie off
  of eBay. The movie was
• Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974) (TV)
• with Led J. Cobb as Victor Bateman
• Directed by William A. Graham
• ABC Circle Films
• PSUB RipOff!!
• 23 Feb 2004 e-mail from David Cutajar
• Poor quality print
• No dimensions
• Long wait a month
• Not worth 30
• Other complaints
• I only got one sheet!

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Events (Continued)
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Events (Continued)

• PSUBS Position
• The quality is as good as it is ever going to be.
  Came direct from George Kittredge himself.
• True, no dimensions. The sheet was offered as a
  example to someone that had no idea how a hull
  went together. Not meant for actual construction
  details.
• Late shipping. Yes, PSUBS (Ray and Jonathan)
  dropped the ball on shipping.
• Cost.
• This one gave PSUBS (Ray and Jonathan) the most
  trouble.
• When George offered to let PSUBS sell this
  sheet, PSUBS had no idea how to value it. Full
  set was 250. Have purchased some plans for 25
  that were little more then sketches. This was a
  sheet from a real, certifiable sub! Finally
  settled on 30.
• Have to renegotiate with George Kittredge to
  reduce pricing.
• There is only one sheet. As was stated at the
  PSUBS Store. For a full set of plans please
  contact Lake Diver (http//johnmaynard.tripod.com/
  ). A set of K-250 plans is 250.

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Events (Continued)

• Alvin is going to be replaced
• March 2004
• New slang coined by Peter McKellar, "The Carsten
  Point
• Gail Paleka
• Was she serious?
• Was she a real engineering student?
• Was she just a trouble maker?
• Did she have to always take things out of
  proportion?
• Did she ever submit any ideas?
• Called PSUBS a bunch male bonding of wanna-bees
  that are only dreamers.
• Stirred up quite a furor with her derisive
  e-mails.
• Then the answer

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Events (Continued)

• Dan H.s Persistance
• Timing could not of been better.
• WOW! Nice sub.
• Kittredge said Dan did a nice job.
• Humble man.
• Spent 30 years dreaming, then built because of
  PSUBS.

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Events (Continued)

• April 2004
• April 6, 2004 LA Times News Article by Kimberly
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• August 2004
• 2004 PSUBS Convention
• The third convention!
• August 21, 2004

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Events (Continued)

• HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
• PSUBS is 8 years old (2004 1996 8)

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Stats

• 2003 Server Stats

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Stats (Continued)

• 2003 Server Stats

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Stats (Continued)
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Stats (Continued)

• 2004 Server Stats
• Not Available

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Site

• www.psubs.org
• Broken links
• Moki pictures not on site
• 2004 Server Stats not working
• 2004 Archive not working

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Conclusion

• PSUBers are human
• E-mail flame wars
• Personalities
• Make mistakes
• Still here after 8 years
• Site needs work
• I wanna build a sub