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  • 2008
    • March
      • update
        03/18/08
        I would like to thank all of you that have been emailing the dive team with your support. we are all now back doing what we were doing before heading to Jakarta. we are also down loading pictures and video to our computer getting ready to put them all together for the reunion in 2009. I hope to get

      • returning back to the states
        03/13/08
        we are now in Japan, waiting for our flight back to the states. it has been a long two weeks and this flight is even longer. I hope to get back and start working on getting all the pictures up and running on this site. the video from videoray will be coming to me in two weeks. i will not be able to

      • last day over the houston
        03/10/08
        This is from Jolene logs of the trips. still have to put in what the divers did while on the Houston. we are getting ready to put the ROV in the water with blueview but ran into a cable problem. hoping to get it fix. we did a test run and it work good. some sonar pictue of the aft tower. we also los

      • good day
        03/08/08
        the ROV got into the hatch and took some good pictures of the first and second decks of the ship. we did find the bed springs that were taken by David Falott. they have moved alittle so they do not line up the same. find fans, more bed springs and some lockers. there was also a lot more items. we wi

      • big day
        03/07/08
        i will have to up date later, had a big day. got some clear water. took some video, hope they came out. move the dive boat to aft part of ship; will put the rov in the hatch in the morning. had some vister from the perth. took them over to the perth for an hour to lay a some flowers. will write more

      • busy day on the water
        03/05/08
        March 5, 2008,
        We got up late and had breakfast at the Pulorida hotel restaurant at 8:30 am. Met Johhny at village peir for pickup at 10:00am.Water calm.

        Eunju and Jolene went diving down the safety line. Jolene touched the Houston for the first time at 11:15

      • ruff sea update.
        03/04/08
        March 3, 2008 afternoon, we wait until the winds die down but the waves were still a little big. Just as David, Eunju and I were just going to entered the water, when the wind slow down making the swim to the anchor line better. We were going down to the side of the ship and then forward to turrett

      • update
        03/03/08
        March 3, 2008, today we came out to the dive boat to ruff seas and strong wind. We will not be able to dive until condition clam down. Yesterday for Jolene was not good. She did not tell me that she hurt her ribs couple weeks before the trip. Yesterday when they pull her aboard, she rebury them. So

      • on houston
        03/02/08
        March 2, 2008, we started out having trouble locating the Houston , we were in the area, but the fishing boat were are ready anchor over it and it was hard to really find the ship. David use the side scan sonar and got some real good maps of the Houston on the bottom. But still we could not get clos

      • dive update
        03/01/08
        today the weather changed from bad to good and we started getting the internet working again.


        We are now out in sunda straits but not over the HOUSTON due a number being off on the GPS. When we got a good number, we ran out of day light. We have anchor for the night and will start

      • dive team update
        03/01/08
        I have some good news today, that all the dive team members are now here in Merek and waiting for the boat ride out to the dive boat tomorrow. We all ate dinner together and talked about what we would like to see happen while out over the Houston. After seeing the waves in the straits, we almost ca

      • From Java
        03/01/08
        I am working with Jerry to get his messages posted. He is having problems with the Internet connection in Java. Also the weather is not being very cooperative. If you would like to track the weather in the area you can use the following links:

        http://weather.msn.com/region.aspx?weal
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