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On 16 Feb 2003, at 8:30, Matthias Voss wrote: > Only heard about Dave Sutton's [Protei]. > You may have to buy some old Mig's to get one as a free bonus ;-) > To my knowldge, Dave uses it for wreckdiving. Battery voltage is > 48Volts, as I have heard. ... It seems a lot of the Kremlin's arsenal is proving of profit to Russia at last, on its one and non-returning mission, to the saleroom. For example, India has bought a clutch of Russia's Kilo class submarines and given them exotic-looking Sanskrit names, see http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ http://homepage.tinet.ie/~steven/bombay.htm They even sold Titov the cosmonaut's spacesuit. (Before that, I saw it in the Kaliningrad near Moscow (where their Mission Control is) when I went with a party to Moscow and Baikonur that time.) (Russian has the same word "skafandr" for "diving suit" and "spacesuit".) > There are some other Russian scooters around in Germany, big red ones, > four handles, you carry them as a team, and go diving as a team with one > scooter. ... What do they look like? Where is a picture of one? Why red? Red seems rather a revealing color for undercover operations. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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