Comments on: S.O.S – Save Our Subs website goes live http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/sos-save-our-subs-website-goes-live/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: armavirumque http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/sos-save-our-subs-website-goes-live/comment-page-1/#comment-7127 armavirumque Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:34:12 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/?p=4688#comment-7127 Absolutely, the capabilities of the ship and subs figured prominently in the CI proposal. Their utilization was implicitly or explicitly required for the majority of proposed projects. Of course, the fact that all of the projects were merely 'proposals' is precisely the rationale being offered as justification for the oddly-timed decision to now look to sell/shutter the assets after the reward has already been announced. Harbor Branch is not technically on the hook to do any of the exact projects laid out in the proposal. Some bait-and-switch, huh? I can only assume NOAA and the CI partner are enraged. It would be sort of like agreeing to commit significant effort and resources to partner with NASA to do man-in-space research only to arrive at the start of the collaboration only to have the NASA administrator tell you, "Oh yeah, all that people-in-space stuff. . . we don't do that anymore." Absolutely, the capabilities of the ship and subs figured prominently in the CI proposal. Their utilization was implicitly or explicitly required for the majority of proposed projects.

Of course, the fact that all of the projects were merely ‘proposals’ is precisely the rationale being offered as justification for the oddly-timed decision to now look to sell/shutter the assets after the reward has already been announced. Harbor Branch is not technically on the hook to do any of the exact projects laid out in the proposal. Some bait-and-switch, huh?

I can only assume NOAA and the CI partner are enraged. It would be sort of like agreeing to commit significant effort and resources to partner with NASA to do man-in-space research only to arrive at the start of the collaboration only to have the NASA administrator tell you, “Oh yeah, all that people-in-space stuff. . . we don’t do that anymore.”

]]> By: Eric http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/sos-save-our-subs-website-goes-live/comment-page-1/#comment-7120 Eric Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:13:20 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/?p=4688#comment-7120 I imagine both the R/V Seward Johnson, and the subs was a major consideration in the political decision that was the Cooperative Institute grant. If HBOI has no subs... Any mention of the other HBOI submersible in all of this? I imagine both the R/V Seward Johnson, and the subs was a major consideration in the political decision that was the Cooperative Institute grant. If HBOI has no subs…

Any mention of the other HBOI submersible in all of this?

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