Hey Mr. President, maybe you should spend some time on the internet. I used Google to identify the following submersibles. It appears that Alvin, which as you will read, retrieved a hydrogen bomb. Alvin can go 14,763 feet deep which is more than two miles. The current gulf oil crisis is occurring a mile beneath the surface, well within the range of Alvin. It would seem, given that we’ve put a man (men) on the moon, that we could utilize these deep sea submarines to deliver a fix to the rupture in the gulf. I’m no engineer, but certainly given NASA, and other federal agencies, a team could be put together to utilize existing technology, merge it into a solution and solve the problem. Wasn’t your campaign theme “Yes We Can!” It was, but more and more it is apparent that “No You Can’t.” And forming a commission isn’t going to, in your reported words, “plug the damn hole!” Anyway, these are my thoughts. Solve the problem. I know, I know, never waste a good crisis. But in this case Mr. President, your political future which is of little import compared to the environmental damage reigning in the Gulf, cannot be salvaged by new regulations, finger pointing, blaming Bush, raising taxes and certainly not by going to a barbecue in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend. I’m pretty sure honoring Paul McCartney next week won’t fix the leak either. Here’s some further news Mr. President. The Gulf Oil Crisis will, for the first time, introduce you to a concept we in the private sector metaphorically live and die by, the bottom line. (No pun intended) This Crisis has all the signs of being your bottom line and so far Mr. President, you aren’t cutting it.
Get to work Mr. President. Read on.
That’s my Reetzality for the day.
Thanks for the read.
Brett Reetz
ALVIN
The Alvin submersible is operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Considered the world’s most productive submersible, it routinely makes more than 150 dives a year. It has been re-built numerous times since it was first designed in 1964. The original aluminum frame has been replaced by titanium, and the depth range has been increased from 13,124 feet to 14,764 feet. In 1966, Alvin, together with a Navy robot, retrieved a hydrogen bomb lost in the Mediterranean after the collision of an American B-52 and a refueling tanker. During preparations for a dive off Cape Cod in 1968, the steel cables used to raise and lower Alvin into the water snapped, sending it 5,065 feet to the seafloor (fortunately with no one on board). When it was retrieved 11 months later, scientists were stunned to find that the bologna sandwich contained in a plastic box in the sunken submersible was still edible.
NAUTILE
Nautile is a French submersible operated by the French Institute of Research and Exploitation of the Sea (known by the acronym IFREMER). Holding a crew of three, it is highly maneuverable and includes a small, telecontrolled robot called Robin that can inspect and image areas inaccessible to the submersible itself. Data and imagery from the deep may be sent to the surface via an acoustic transmission unit. In 1987,
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Nautile, whose manipulation system includes two mechanical arms and a retractable sampling basket, was used to recover thousands of artifacts from the Titanic.
MIR-1 and MIR-2
The submersibles MIR-1 and MIR-2 were built in 1987 and are operated by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Russia. Each vehicle has an iron-nickel battery with a capacity of 100 kilowatts, which is twice as much as is available for other submersibles in the same dive range (to 19,800 feet). The Mirs’ high power capacity allows them to undertake underwater work schedules of 17 to 20 hours. Both submersibles carry up to eight 1,200-watt halogen-mercury-iodine lights, which helped them film scenes of the Titanic for the blockbuster Hollywood movie. The Mirs have also been used to explore hydrothermal vents and observe the wreck of the Russian nuclear submarine Komsomolets.
Back to Reetzality. Just a thought Mr. President. Now run with it.
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