[Ramius]

Alvin has sure proven itself over all these years. They’ve really gotten a lot of mileage out of that platform.

I got to crawl down inside Alvin years ago. The Woods Hole ship, I think it was Atlantis II, pulled into Astoria for a few days. A CG buddy of mine and I went down to visit (in uniform) to see if we could talk anybody into a tour. They were happy to... and gave us the royal tour. They even let us climb up on Alvin and go down the hatch. Pretty cool. I’d been interested in Alvin and oceanography since I was a little kid, and it was just amazing to finally get to do that.

[decimon]

Alvin has sure proven itself over all these years.

Sure seems so.

I got to crawl down inside Alvin years ago.

Is it as cramped inside as I imagine?