http://www.theday.com/article/201008...100819697/1017

Some wealthy eccentric bought a submarine for personal use (formerly used by Universal Studios). Apparently he broke down out on Long Island Sound, and the Coast Guard towed him into the Thames River here... and moored it right across from Electric Boat for everyone to see. Even the Navy subs have to go past it.

So everyone here is getting a good chuckle. Seems pretty neat, but you gotta feel inadequate when a real sub goes by.



(Here's an old article courtesy of Google)
http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_art...406_bee-01.txt

 

it's still better than my sub

 

Yeah, reading that second article, it looks pretty cool. But I'd still be a bit ashamed... his goal is to get the thing to be a proper submarine again, and the people with the bulk of the world's submarine know-how is sitting here watching his broken down boat...

 

I think I saw recently that the drug cartel was using submarines to ship drugs to ports on the west coast. The drug cartel subs can apparently make the 110,000 weight necessary to submerge and they apparently have the ability to mask their exhaust so that the DEA airplanes overhead can't spot them with the DEA's heat seeking devices. No one knows for sure since the theory is that the submarines are scuttled once they make their delivery.

The Chinese and North Korean military are apparently able to sell quite a few of these way down in South America.

 

wtf... this guy has money to burn

"A sometimes-frustrating work in progress, and some $500,000 later, Deep Quest now is fully insulated and equipped with amenities including central heat and air conditioning, microwave oven and wide screen TV. It’s a live-aboard, even when docked in Clearwater Beach where creature comforts are readily available at much fancier digs. Re prefers to remain with his submarine"

 

Yeah, but it's no worse than some of those big yachts you see around. Some people just don't like cars...

 

Then John Kerry must really burn your a$$. He spent $7Million on a sail boat AND had his boat built in a foreign country (no US workers for senator Kerry), AND tried to dodge his Massachusetts taxes which just so happed to be about equal to the amount that the submarine guy spent to buy and restore his vessel.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/waterc...l/29/sen-kerry/

Now THAT is what I call wtf?

 

Well, I can safely say it wouldn't bother me for a single minute.

 

Ashame? Ashame of what, having the passion and $$ to restore a submarine? I'd feel like a p0rn star walking naked across a men's locker room.

 

you don't know i know i do but then again i don't go to the gym