At last! Today we picked up Eagle, ready to ride again. On the way home we stopped to tour the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport. Friend and traveling companion Brock went with us, but Leola was unable to come.
Alas, the museum was closed on Tuesdays. We had to content ourselves with a tour of the four outside exhibits where we learned about nuclear submarines, underwater habitats, bathyscaphes, and deep submergence vehicles.
On the left of the museum is this structure which we learned is called a sail.
This one is from the USS Sturgeon, one of our nuclear nuclear submarines.
To the right of the sail we found the end cap of Sealab, one of three experimental underwater habitats from the 1960's.
Across the parking lot from Sealab is Trieste, a bathyscaphe, or free-diving self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable. Trieste reached a record depth of about 10,911 meters or 35,797 feet in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench on Jan. 23, 1960. It was the first manned vessel to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep.
To the right of Trieste is Mystic, a deep submergence rescue vehicle. Mystic was versatile enough to be deployed to anywhere in the world within 72 hours.
After learning our lessons for the day, Brock and I followed Duane and Eagle home.
Many thanks to Destination Harley-Davidson in Silverdale, WA for working with us on our tight schedule to obtain parts and fix the bike before we leave the area.
One more adventure tomorrow.
Louise and Duane
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