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SUbJECT: West Coast Submarine Event Date: 9/20/93
The Submarines Are Coming to San Diego!
Human Powered Submarines from around the country are heading to San Diego to
challenge the Guinness Book of Records. Brought together by an interest in fun
and fair collegiate competition against the medium and the clock, teams from as
far away as Columbus, Ohio and Seattle, WA have chosen to make the trek to
Southern California next March 22-31, 1994 to the mammoth indoor freshwater
basin of Offshore Model Basin in Escondido to participate in the West Coast
Submarine Invitational. A total of 20-25 submarines are expected.
The Invitational is directed by two former submarine team leaders, Kevin
Hardy ('91 Scripps Institution's SubDUDE) and Jim Richardson ('91 and '93
Sub-Human Group). The Invitational is organized through the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography's Ocean Technology Forum. The West Coast Submarine
Invitational has been sanctioned by the Guinness Publishing, Middlesex,
England. Corporate sponsors include Offshore Model Basin (Escondido), Deep Sea
Power and Light (San Diego), Robot Research (San Diego), HiTech Equipment
Corporation (San Diego), the San Diego Section-Marine Technology Society,
Emerson-Cuming/Grace Syntactics (Canton, MA), and Travelodge. Other major
sponsors are coming aboard.
"Southern California is the center of the sport diving industry," says Kevin
Hardy. "Most of the major equipment manufacturers, certification organizations
and the primary trade association are headquartered here. The first dive club,
the Bottom Scratchers, began and still exists in San Diego. It makes sense to
have an event of this caliber here."
"We developed and successfully demonstrated the methodology off La Jolla for
Guinness in 1992," continued Hardy. "Part of the agreement with Guinness was
that others would have the opportunity to challenge the records. We're making
good on that promise."
Jim Richardson, co-event organizer, believes "the Invitational will provide a
friendly and supportive environment to evaluate engineering designs, to verify
performance and to inspire innovation and interest in the area of underwater
technology. We're encouraging each team to try different configurations of
their boats. Their fastest time will challenge the records."
Organizers note that the West Coast Submarine Invitational is an event, not a
race, and bears little similarity to, nor is it affiliated with, the Perry
Foundation's International Submarine Races held off the eastern coast of
Florida. One major difference among several: the teams can stay here for as
little as one day instead of two weeks in Florida. Plus the weather's always
nice in San Diego.
"We're using David Bushnell's Turtle, from the American Revolution, in our
graphics," says Hardy. "People have been building human-powered subs for a
long time."
The Invitational is set up with three divisions: high school, collegiate
and professional. Each division has four categories: 1-man propeller, 1-man
non-propeller, 2-man propeller and 2-man non-propeller. That creates a total
of twelve awards in addition to the Guinness records.
Interested teams or sponsors should contact:
Kevin Hardy, UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, (619) 534-6937, FAX
(619) 534-6354, CompuServe 76060,2622 Internet: khardy@uc*.ed*, or;
Jim Richardson, 328 Kingsly Lane, American Canyon, CA 94589-4111
FAX (707) 646-2415 CompuServe 71233,2475 Phone (707) 552-4965 or 646-1021.
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