Hello,
We have looked at the non profit status , it doesn't fit into the company direction.
But a group could get together , buy it and do that . This vessel is more that just a barge . It's a floating warehouse , restaurant, hotel , home , machine shop, welding fabrication shop, dive business , movie production , or museum operation all in one barge. She is perfect for a fixed base or mobile dive, salvage, treasure hunting and or construction operations. Their is plenty of room for offices, equipment storage, fabrication and repair facilites. This Vessel has all the amenities, power generation, living/sleeping quarters, heads, galley, food storage, refrigeration/freezers, machine shop, welding shop , high pressure and low pressure dive compressors , scuba tank refilling station , and re- compression chamber. Everything needed and then some for any operation to be completely self-sufficient. All you need is a tug to get it there.
Have an instant dive business with a little work , dock it and use shore power.
Make a dive museum out of it and have overnight camping for the kids. This is the only 1 of the yrst series left The Navy ungrader her in the 90s. She was built in 1944 and has a hard hat diving history.
Pictures are ok , seeing it and walking her deck is an interesting feeling , a lot of the Naval hard hat divers trained on this vessel. She was stationed at Little Creek Va.
Think out side the box ,someone out there my have the resource to pull something together.
Regards
diverdad2
