[Alumni-chat] [Why are we always poor?

[J. David Coldren]

Times have changed since the mid-1960's. Woods Hole was interested in some
co-op students for a long-term project that somebody must have funded. I'm
not sure whatever became of that proposition, but I know it got a lot of
discussion. That's what inspired my kooky idea.


J. David Coldren '65




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Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] [Why are we always poor?


>I once talked about opening up a center in conjunction with the Wood's Hole
>Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts so that our students
in
>biology and other science areas could have access to their submarines(!).
As someone who recently took an Alvin dive at the East Pacific Rise
hydrothermal sites I must tell you that it doesn't work that way. Woods Hole
scientists don't have access to the submarines without outside funding.  The
R/V Atlantis costs 50,000 per day whether outfitted with DSV Alvin or ROV
Jason.  If Antioch could pay 50,000 a day they could take a cruise with
their students and professors to dive anywhere in the world they might want
provided a sound scientific justifiication.  On the plus side, my 1990's
Antioch education made it possible for me to get into graduate school
studying marine biology and to go on a cruise to the EPR hydrothermal vents
and take an Alvin dive.


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