Mark Epstein (Jeff's Bro) donated his million dollar 80 foot yacht "Izmo" to a BVI based non-profit that teaches highschoolers and college students marine bio
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3376620
follow the money... who owned this boat prior to Mark?
https://web.archive.org/web/20190820184513/https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/the-superyacht-directory/izmo--73143
Previous name was "Sally H VII"
https://books.google.com/books?id=uWnm6-Fe-70C&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=sally+h+vi%22+%2B+%22yacht%22&source=bl&ots=JSdnojw-Vl&sig=ACfU3U2iwx302QWRBxy1v9zBXIgkE_0jkg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR5MCCkJLkAhUbJTQIHenoCZgQ6AEwF3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=sally%20h%20vi%22%20%2B%20%22yacht%22&f=false
Sally H VII was commissioned for E.E. Hayes in 1971 (who also commissioned the Sally V (1960) and VI)
https://books.google.com/books?id=4o9MGgdYGSgC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=sally+h+vi%22+%2B+%22yacht%22&source=bl&ots=ZeOKTIoQh-&sig=ACfU3U2c3RGHhX4K8ip8mfvW2l4o0EVAeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR5MCCkJLkAhUbJTQIHenoCZgQ6AEwE3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=sally%20h%20vi%22%20%2B%20%22yacht%22&f=false
Who was E.E. Hayes?... well that took a while. I finally found "earl ewing hayes"
http://dlaweb.whoi.edu/PHP/FAID/faids_files/MC-90_Hays_E.html
A nuclear physicist and oceanographer who worked for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. His expertise was undersea acoustics which he used to image previously unmapped ocean depths
https://archive.org/stream/collectionofinst00mari/collectionofinst00mari_djvu.txt
while employed at Woods Hole, E.E. Hayes designed a mini submarine for the Office of Naval Intelligence called the "Alvin".
(Declassed Navy PDF) https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/295079.pdf
http://www.archive.org/stream/oceanusv3104wood/oceanusv3104wood_djvu.txt
With Navy cooperation, our group at WHOI, under the leadership of Earl Hays, drew up specifications for a somewhat changed and enlarged version of Sea Pup that was deemed more suitable for the anticipated scientific work. WHOI put this proposal out to public bid, and after discussions with several
potential builders, General Mills was awarded the contract. The cereal maker initially offered to build the sub for less than a half million dollars. After WHOI's additions and changes, it would cost nearly twice that amount. Meanwhile, General Mills sold off its electronics division to Litton Systems, Incorporated. Litton, however, let Froehlich complete the job.
On 5 June 1964, as a spring sun shone brightly overhead, the little sub was christened at Woods Hole. It was no longer Sea Pup. It had become Alvin, a name that was already being used informally by WHOI's Deep Submergence Group, which was in charge of preparing the submersible for sea duty.
https://www.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/archives_230933.jpeg
https://ibase-vm.whoi.edu/media.php?i=98221&t=2&p=5&dg=b4259e8bf545f2f7c449232e9f05e1713e52c3df
(am I crazy or do those early WHOI yacht watermarks kinda look like the blover logo?...def triangle symbology)
@shewhomustbeobeyed @vindicator @letsdothis3 @think- @blacksmith21
so do ya'll think Epstein's yacht could have a mini sub?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3183066?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
US Navy was pouring money into oceanic research for the very practical reasons of underwater warfare. I think yachts are excellent covert military vehicles as they are "independent"
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IIJOSEPHXII ago
This is great research for me because I have been eerily sure for over a year now, that The Beatles were killed on the solstice of June 1964. They were put into a submarine and dropped to the bottom of the ocean somewhere near New Zealand, because the clip of them arriving Wellington airport was the last we see of that iteration of the fab 4.
YogSoggoth ago
Hate to support this because it sounds so ridiculous, and makes matters even more confusing, but, :Allyn Vine was one of the very first scientists to think of the possibility of looking at the deep sea in an underwater vehicle. The Alvin is named after both Dr. Vine and the famous cartoon character from Alvin and the Chipmunks. Alvin and the Chipmunks were a toothy musical group. Strangely enough, there is a McCartney present. In the 2007 CGI/live-action film adaptation and its 2009 sequel, they were voiced in dialogue by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney. Of course there was a part where they got lost in the Pacific in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. This baby is all yours.