Well...at least my lost submarine skills appear to be better than my lost mission skills

My post where I thought I had found the source of the Santa Isabel stories appears to be...well...wrong, according to initial reports.

However, while trying to research the arroyo online I bumped into my friend's friend's lost submarine.

Here's the story as I know it:

Before I ever made the lost mission post I contacted a friend of mine who does arial photography in Las Vegas in hopes that he would want to do a helicopter day trip to the site. I was unsuccessful in convincing him to go, in part because of what he said happened to his friend's submarine.

His friend owned a $2,000,000 submarine that could be used for taking tourists on undersea adventures, and he wanted to set up shop at or near Cabo San Lucas so he drove the sub down there and parked it while he negotiated with the local authorities trying to get permission for his new business.

After several weeks of unsuccessful progress with the government, he gave up and wanted to drive the sub back to California, but he was told by the authorities that he wasn't allowed to drive a submarine in Mexican waters and would need to hire a Mexican tow boat company to tow it back to California. He did, and he paid the tug company in advance, and drove home without his submarine.

A couple of weeks later he got the phone call that said that the tug boat company was towing the sub when the line snapped or something and the sub sunk...but they don't know where.

...yeah...right.

Anyways, today when DK told me that the arroyo labeled as "Zamora" which is actually "El Volcan" used to be called "El Tule", I started doing "El Tule" searches stumbled across the following page:

http://loscabosguide.com/cabosubmarine/index.html

I emailed my friend to see if by chance this was his friend's submarine and he says that it is.

...and you guys thought I wouldn't find anything by spending my time searching the internet for Santa Isabel.

Ahem...Submarine, yeah, right...

...According to Wikipedia...A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water.

I'd call that a Glass Bottom Boat, not a 'submarine'...but, hey, what ever floats your boat for those Cabo tourists...

What was the rest of the 'lost sub' story? The tow boat skipper says it was 'lost at sea'...then it's running tourists around Cabo...where did that leave your friend's buddy, the 'owner'?...Did he get it back?...What am I missing here?

Have to say I'm a bit skeptical about that $2mil price tag as well...if he paid $2mil for 'that' vessel, someone saw him coming...


[Edited on 3-12-2011 by Mexray]

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Originally posted by Mexray ...According to Wikipedia...A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. I'd call that a Glass Bottom Boat, not a 'submarine'...but, hey, what ever floats your boat for those Cabo tourists... What was the rest of the 'lost sub' story? The tow boat skipper says it was 'lost at sea'...then it's running tourists around Cabo...where did that leave your friend's buddy, the 'owner'?...Did he get it back?...What am I missing here? [Edited on 3-12-2011 by Mexray]

$2,000,000 for a glass-bottomed boat? Jeez!That's pocket change for the high rolling Nomad crowd. All you trailer park trash cheepos just don't know squat about boats.