A while back I hinted in a group email at some news I wanted to share and just got permission.. Not happy news, I'm afraid. Back at the end of August Paul Mayer and his wife Rosie came through Kentucky on their way home from a trip to Ohio. We met them at Shaker Village outside of Harrodsburg and shared a meal at the historic inn there. Paul relayed to me that the RV Petrel, the ship used to locate so many historic wrecks including Strong, was being sold. Sold to the US Navy. The team leader Rob Kraft was about to be unemployed, the last of the iconic crew to be lost to history. No more will Petrel cross the seas to fulfill the missions the late Paul Allen so loved and thrived on.
His family failed him as far as I'm concerned. We were SO fortunate in the timing of getting Strong found. Because of COVID, it turned out to be one of the last found. And because of COVID, the plaque we had made is still sitting here in my home office/walk in closet. We most probably would have been able to place it at the site if not for the pandemic. But, I'm not giving up on that. Life threw us a huge lemon here and I'm trying to find a way to make lemonade, a few pies and whatever else I can make from it.
At present, there is no one that I know of out there doing what Allen's people did. Even Victor Vescovo sold his ship, the Pressure Drop, and is no longer seeking wrecks. So thank you forever to Paul Mayer, Rob Kraft and the Petrel crew, and thank you David Mearns for the introduction to Paul back in 2018. We will keep in touch and never be able to fully thank you for your dedication to our cause and our ship.
-Tammi
His family failed him as far as I'm concerned. We were SO fortunate in the timing of getting Strong found. Because of COVID, it turned out to be one of the last found. And because of COVID, the plaque we had made is still sitting here in my home office/walk in closet. We most probably would have been able to place it at the site if not for the pandemic. But, I'm not giving up on that. Life threw us a huge lemon here and I'm trying to find a way to make lemonade, a few pies and whatever else I can make from it.
At present, there is no one that I know of out there doing what Allen's people did. Even Victor Vescovo sold his ship, the Pressure Drop, and is no longer seeking wrecks. So thank you forever to Paul Mayer, Rob Kraft and the Petrel crew, and thank you David Mearns for the introduction to Paul back in 2018. We will keep in touch and never be able to fully thank you for your dedication to our cause and our ship.
-Tammi
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