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Submarine for sale as group's dream sinks in a sea of red tape
The Australian ^
| 19th December 2008
| Cameron Stewart
Posted on 12/19/2008 1:51:44 PM PST by naturalman1975
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This is all happening quite near where I live - and it's tragic to see Otama rusting away out there. The Oberons did sterling work for Australia in the latter days of the cold war, and its aftermath, much of which is still not publically known.
Hastings would be a great place for this sub to be displayed - it's very near HMAS Cerberus, where many Australian sailors began their naval careers.
What is perplexing about all this is that Otama is floating just off the coast of Hastings where they want to put it, and they can't get it ashore.
They managed to get most of one of her sisters to Holbrook in New South Wales - and that's hundreds of miles inland.
To: naturalman1975
No doubt China will buy it through intermediaries.
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12/19/2008 1:54:45 PM PST
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MahatmaGandu
(Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
To: naturalman1975
Otama Rusting Away
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12/19/2008 2:04:21 PM PST
by
blam
(Old diesel sub sailor)
To: naturalman1975
4.9 million? I’ll give’m a penny a pound.
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12/19/2008 2:04:38 PM PST
by
Poison Pill
(It's a Major Award!)
To: Poison Pill
In for a penny, in for a pound...
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12/19/2008 2:08:53 PM PST
by
null and void
(Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: naturalman1975
I'm kept sheltered, for my own good they tell me, so that must be why I was unaware of the world of luxury personal submarine ownership until about a year ago. I had no idea. I read somewhere, but forget the stats, that they have some insane perfect safety record. Check out this site.
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To: blam
Had an old van that was rusting from the wheels up. Tacked on a zinc plate where a panel had rusted through and the rusting stopped instantly everywhere on the van.
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12/19/2008 2:25:58 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
To: RightWhale
"Had an old van that was rusting from the wheels up. Tacked on a zinc plate where a panel had rusted through and the rusting stopped instantly everywhere on the van." I had a pecan orchard and the trees had a fungus on them...I put some zinc granules around them and the fungus disappeared.
Zinc is good.
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12/19/2008 2:30:47 PM PST
by
blam
To: nomorelurker
selfping
To: Albanese
"You can have these for $50K, just tow them out of there." Russian?
This one is not ten miles from my home.
USS Drum
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12/19/2008 2:36:46 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
USS Drum
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12/19/2008 2:38:13 PM PST
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blam
To: naturalman1975; All
I think that the Messiah should buy it with his leftover campaign funds.
I mean he only has to change one letter in the name of the boat to make it his!
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12/19/2008 2:38:40 PM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Happy 233rd Birthday, USMC!!!)
To: RightWhale
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12/19/2008 2:42:24 PM PST
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PeterPrinciple
( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: blam
"Zinc is good." ...and thus endeth our first chemistry lesson.
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; alfa6; Peanut Gallery; Samwise
Say, the Foxhole could use a navy.
To: naturalman1975
I am hoping that instead of decommissioning one of the Los Angeles class submarines, that it is converted into an undersea scientific platform. It would be as prestigious as the International Space Station, and could perform survey missions impossible for surface craft.
Among its unique abilities would be to deploy bathyspheres much deeper than is currently possible, entomb high grade nuclear waste in a mountain of underwater cement, and perhaps survey enormous undersea ore deposits.
To: naturalman1975
They managed to get most of one of her sisters to Holbrook in New South Wales - and that's hundreds of miles inland. All Holbrook has is the deck casing and conning tower. That can be shipped dismantled. The pressure hull and its contents got left behind. (except a short bit of the stern
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12/19/2008 5:19:22 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Kill the English their concept of individual rights might undermine the power of our beloved tyrants)
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